{"id":481303,"date":"2026-06-03T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481303\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:34:08","slug":"two-arrested-in-connection-with-fatal-stabbing-of-qayyum-balogun-in-dublin-city-centre-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481303\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested in connection with fatal stabbing of Qayyum Balogun in Dublin city centre \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> investigating the fatal stabbing of Qayyum Balogun (21) off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/grafton-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/grafton-street\">Grafton Street<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> city centre at the weekend have arrested a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man detained for questioning on Wednesday is one of at least three suspects in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cGarda\u00ed in Pearse Street continue to investigate a fatal assault which occurred on Clarendon Street, Dublin 2 in the early hours of Monday 1st June,\u201d the Garda said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The statement said a woman in her 20s was arrested on Tuesday and a man in his 20s was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the investigation into the death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Qayyum Balogun.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780508048_242_7CBUJVA3SVGLRAMEBY2BWDK42Q.jpeg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"598\"\/>Qayyum Balogun. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThey are currently detained pursuant to Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the Dublin area,\u201d the Garda said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Detectives have ruled out a racial motive for the killing and are trying to determine whether Balogun knew his killer, or at least moved in the same social circles, based on the African music scene in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Some of the videos filmed around the time of his killing were recorded by people on the street as revellers left a gig in Bewley\u2019s Cafe where Balogun had spent Sunday night into Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed strongly suspect the man who fatally stabbed Balogun just before 3am on Monday is captured in footage, which they are also using to help identify witnesses at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigating the fatal stabbing of Qayyum Balogun (21) off Grafton Street in the Dublin city centre at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,615,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-481303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481303","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=481303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}