{"id":612860,"date":"2026-09-03T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612860\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:42:09","slug":"four-arrested-after-suspected-knife-attack-in-south-dublin-suburb-of-ranelagh-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612860\/","title":{"rendered":"Four arrested after suspected knife attack in south Dublin suburb of Ranelagh \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Four people have been arrested by garda\u00ed following an attack which left one man injured at a Spar shop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ranelagh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ranelagh\/\">Ranelagh<\/a>, south Dublin, shortly before 1.30pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The attack is suspected to have involved a knife and occurred at the prominent convenience store adjacent to the Triangle in the village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The shop entrance was cordoned off while the store was inspected as part of the investigation. The incident is thought to have begun elsewhere before ending up in the premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Those arrested were detained at a Dublin Garda station on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A young man who suffered stab wounds in the attack was brought to hospital with injuries that are thought to be \u201cnon-life-threatening\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local camera footage, seen by The Irish Times, shows an individual running from a number of others along the main street in Ranelagh before entering the Spar premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A number of the individuals involved in the incident are known in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood that garda\u00ed at the scene of the incident were investigating links to another attack in Leopardstown over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na confirmed that the force, including armed officers, responded to calls of an alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It said in a statement: \u201cGarda\u00ed arrested four individuals who are currently detained under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 in Garda stations in the Dublin Metropolitan Region. Investigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The suspected assault comes days after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/09\/01\/man-injured-in-leopardstown-brawl-dies-from-injuries-in-beaumont-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/09\/01\/man-injured-in-leopardstown-brawl-dies-from-injuries-in-beaumont-hospital\/\">24-year-old man died after suffering \u201ccatastrophic injuries<\/a>\u201d in a large-scale violent confrontation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leopardstown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leopardstown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leopardstown<\/a> on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The attack, which took place at an abandoned premises in the area which was home to about 15 members of the Roma community, involved a spade and led to the death of Siminic Rostas, a court heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people have been arrested by garda\u00ed following an attack which left one man injured at a Spar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,40695],"class_list":["post-612860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ranelagh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612860","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=612860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}