{"id":313754,"date":"2026-02-23T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313754\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:23:10","slug":"mma-fighter-charged-alongside-chef-over-ferocious-temple-bar-assault-believed-man-had-sold-heroin-to-girl-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313754\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA fighter charged alongside chef over \u2018ferocious\u2019 Temple Bar assault believed man had sold heroin to girl, court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The injured male remains in a critical condition in hospitalCourt heard he was unrecognisable due to his facial injuries and was identified only after an image of his tattoo was circulatedDet Gda Collier said it was a vicious, prolonged assault that lasted five-and-a-half minutes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leonel Ricci\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8482d678-5ce2-4b34-a7f4-cb565ba2f234.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Leonel Ricci<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An MMA fighter and a chef have been refused bail after appearing in court charged with a &#8220;ferocious&#8221; unprovoked attack in Dublin&#8217;s Temple Bar last week that left a man fighting for his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The injured male, who remains in a critical condition at Beaumont Hospital, was discovered on Cope Street in the early hours of Wednesday morning after being punched, kicked to his face and body, and having an e-scooter dropped on his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injured male remains in a critical condition in hospitalCourt heard he was unrecognisable due to his facial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-313754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313754","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=313754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}