{"id":486451,"date":"2026-06-06T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486451\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:42:09","slug":"teenager-arrested-in-connection-with-qayyum-balogun-investigation-released-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486451\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager arrested in connection with Qayyum Balogun investigation released \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A teenager arrested in connection with an investigation into the killing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/06\/02\/gardai-studying-video-footage-of-moments-leading-up-fatal-grafton-street-stabbing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/06\/02\/gardai-studying-video-footage-of-moments-leading-up-fatal-grafton-street-stabbing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Qayyum Balogun<\/a>, who was stabbed to death in Dublin city on Monday, has been released without charge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The juvenile male, aged in his mid-teens, was arrested on Friday in connection with the investigation into the fatal assault. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was being detained under section four of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the Dublin area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was the third person arrested as part of the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier on Friday, a man who was allegedly part of a \u201c14-man pack\u201d that chased Balogun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/06\/05\/man-allegedly-part-of-14-man-pack-that-chased-qayyum-balogun-charged-with-assaults-violent-disorder\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/06\/05\/man-allegedly-part-of-14-man-pack-that-chased-qayyum-balogun-charged-with-assaults-violent-disorder\/\">appeared in court<\/a> on charges of assault causing harm and violent disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Joshua Brodericks (25), with an address at Gleann Dara in Rahoon, Co Galway, faces four charges in relation to the incident. He is not being charged with any offences specifically against Balogun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman arrested as part of the investigation was released without charge on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Balogun (21), from a Nigerian family based in Dundalk, was attacked after attending a gig in Bewley\u2019s Caf\u00e9 on Grafton Street in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cInvestigations are ongoing,\u201d a Garda statement said on Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager arrested in connection with an investigation into the killing of Qayyum Balogun, who was stabbed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-486451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486451","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=486451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}