{"id":485391,"date":"2026-06-06T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485391\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:46:10","slug":"teenager-arrested-following-fatal-assault-in-dublin-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485391\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager arrested following fatal assault in Dublin city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been arrested following the fatal assault on Qayyum Balogun.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested earlier on Friday and can be held for up to 24 hours. He is currently being detained at a garda station in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Joshua Brodericks, of Glenn Dara, Rahoon in Galway, also faces two counts of violent disorder arising from incidents in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard the events began after a large group, including Joshua Brodericks, was asked to leave a late-night event at Bewley\u2019s caf\u00e9 on Grafton Street.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/frenzied-rampage-led-to-fatal-stabbing-of-qayyum-balogun-in-dublin-court-hears-1909867.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/frenzied-rampage-led-to-fatal-stabbing-of-qayyum-balogun-in-dublin-court-hears-1909867.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tributes-clarendon-st2-e1780683889733.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"'Frenzied Rampage' Led To Fatal Stabbing Of Qayyum Balogun In Dublin, Court Hears\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Frenzied rampage&#8217; led to fatal stabbing of Qayyum Balogun in Dublin, court hears<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After leaving the venue, Mr Brodericks is alleged to have led a \u201c14-man pack\u201d in a relentless chase of 21-year-old Qayyum Balogun and his friends through Dublin city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Garda Will McCarthy claimed Mr Balogun was surrounded and violently attacked by six men on Clarendon Street, where he suffered fatal stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brodericks is not accused of any offence directly relating to his death, but Garda McCarthy claimed his actions were the \u201ccatastrophic catalyst\u201d for his murder<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of later assaulting a man and a woman on nearby Grafton Street, and he also faces two counts of violent disorder. The judge granted him bail subject to several strict conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has been arrested following the fatal assault on Qayyum Balogun. He was arrested earlier on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-485391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485391","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=485391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}