{"id":310789,"date":"2026-02-22T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310789\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:22:08","slug":"two-charged-in-connection-with-temple-bar-assault-that-left-man-critically-injured-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310789\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged in connection with Temple Bar assault that left man critically injured \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men have been charged in connection with an assault in Dublin city centre earlier this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/02\/19\/gardai-seek-help-identifying-unconscious-man-following-serious-assault-in-dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/02\/19\/gardai-seek-help-identifying-unconscious-man-following-serious-assault-in-dublin\/\">left a man critically injured<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a> confirmed the charges in a press release circulated on Saturday night. The men, aged in their 20s and 30s, are due to appear before Dublin District Court on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They had been arrested on Friday in connection with the incident, which happened on Cope Street at around 12.30am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Following arrest, garda\u00ed confirmed the pair remained in custody under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The injured man, whose age is unknown, remains in a critical condition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>\u2019s Beaumont Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood the man was not able to communicate with medical staff or garda\u00ed after being brought to hospital and that no next of kin initially came forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The extensive nature of the injuries to his face were complicating efforts to determine his identity. Following a public appeal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/2026\/02\/21\/two-men-arrested-after-serious-assault-on-unidentified-man-in-dublins-temple-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/2026\/02\/21\/two-men-arrested-after-serious-assault-on-unidentified-man-in-dublins-temple-bar\/\">garda\u00ed have identified the man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been charged in connection with an assault in Dublin city centre earlier this week that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,1346,61,60,43,38702],"class_list":["post-310789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-temple-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310789","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=310789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}