{"id":508394,"date":"2026-06-19T19:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508394\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:17:11","slug":"third-teenager-accused-of-attacking-man-near-3arena-has-case-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508394\/","title":{"rendered":"Third teenager accused of attacking man near 3Arena has case upgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"

A third teenager accused of attacking a concertgoer who was severely injured near the 3Arena in January had his case upgraded to a more serious assault category on Friday.<\/p>\n

The victim, a Co Laois man in his early 20s, was left fighting for his life in hospital after what was described as a sustained attack.<\/p>\n

It occurred outside the venue in Dublin’s city centre after a concert by Scottish DJ Ewan McVicar.<\/p>\n

The injured party was taken to Beaumont Hospital with two bleeds on the brain and was placed in an induced coma afterwards.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old had been charged earlier with assault causing harm to the man at North Wall Quay on January 30th.<\/p>\n

The existing assault charge was replaced with more serious allegations under section 4 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act for recklessly or intentionally causing serious harm to the man, which carries a possible life sentence.<\/p>\n

He appeared at the Dublin Children’s Court, where Judge Brendan Toale noted the Director of Public Prosecutions stated the boy, like two other teenage co-defendants, should face trial on indictment in the Circuit Court, which has wider sentencing powers.<\/p>\n

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Judge Toale ordered the boy, who is on bail, to appear again in September for a preliminary hearing to plead for the case to be retained in the Children’s Court.<\/p>\n

Two other teenage boys, who had their assault charges upgraded on Thursday, are to appear again in July for their trial venue to be determined.<\/p>\n

A man is also before the courts on related charges.<\/p>\n

A previous bail hearing was told that the incident was allegedly planned and premeditated, and that it was filmed on a phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third teenager accused of attacking a concertgoer who was severely injured near the 3Arena in January had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-508394","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\/508394","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=508394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}