{"id":609539,"date":"2026-08-30T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609539\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T20:20:12","slug":"man-20s-critical-after-violent-disorder-incident-in-south-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609539\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (20s) critical after violent disorder incident in south Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has been arrested following an incident of violent disorder in the south Dublin suburb of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leopardstown\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leopardstown\/\">Leopardstown<\/a> that left three other men hospitalised on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At around 8.25pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services received reports of an incident involving a number of people at South County Business Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man, aged in his 20s, received serious injuries and was being treated at Beaumont Hospital where he remained in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two other men, also aged in their 20s, were brought to St Vincent\u2019s hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 20s was arrested and was being detained at a Garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region under Section 4 Criminal Justice Act, 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed said investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene was preserved for technical examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior investigating officer has been appointed and an incident room has been established at Dundrum Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with camera footage who was in or around the Vantage Apartments, Central Park, Leopardstown, and the South County Business Park area between 8pm and 9pm on Saturday is asked to make it available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information can contact Dundrum Garda station on (01) 666 5600, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested following an incident of violent disorder in the south Dublin suburb of Leopardstown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,615,61,60,16797,43],"class_list":["post-609539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leopardstown","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609539","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=609539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}