{"id":310301,"date":"2026-02-21T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310301\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:09:08","slug":"man-critically-injured-in-temple-bar-assault-identified-after-garda-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310301\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critically injured in Temple Bar assault identified after Garda appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed identified a man who was critically injured in an assault in the Temple Bar area of Dublin earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Two men were arrested in connection with the incident on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The two men, aged in their 20s and 30s, continue to be detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at Garda Stations in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The injured man, whose age is unknown, remains in a critical condition at Dublin\u2019s Beaumont Hospital, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai released an image of a tattoo they say is on his right forearm.<\/p>\n<p>It is comprised of a blue and white tattoo and the words \u201cCeol is Beatha\u201d, ceol meaning music and beatha meaning life.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed continue to appeal for any witnesses to this incident to contact them. Anyone who was in the area of Cope Street between midnight and 1:00 am, and who may have any information about the incident, is asked to contact investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed can be contacted at Pearse Street Garda Station on 01 666 9000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed identified a man who was critically injured in an assault in the Temple Bar area of Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-310301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}