{"id":477322,"date":"2026-06-01T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477322\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:51:08","slug":"man-21-dies-after-fatal-assault-in-dublin-city-centre-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477322\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (21) dies after fatal assault in Dublin city centre \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are investigating a fatal assault that took place in the streets around Grafton Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>\u2019s city centre in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man aged 21 was found in a serious condition on Grafton Street at 3am after garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to an incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was taken to St James\u2019s Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fatal assault took place on Clarendon Street, parallel to the main shopping street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The State Pathologist has been informed and a postmortem will be arranged. The scene was preserved for technical examination on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed from Pearse Street Garda station are investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They have appealed for witnesses to come forward with information, and for those who may have CCTV or dashcam footage to provide this to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/06\/01\/wet-week-ahead-but-second-half-of-june-to-be-warmer-than-usual-met-eireann-says\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Second half of June to be warmer than usual, Met \u00c9ireann saysOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating a fatal assault that took place in the streets around Grafton Street in Dublin\u2019s city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,615,94043,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-477322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dublin","tag-grafton-street","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477322","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=477322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}