{"id":619613,"date":"2026-09-09T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619613\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:34:09","slug":"two-further-arrests-after-fatal-violent-incident-in-leopardstown-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619613\/","title":{"rendered":"Two further arrests after fatal violent incident in Leopardstown \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two further arrests have been made by garda\u00ed investigating an incident of violent disorder in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leopardstown\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leopardstown\/\">Leopardstown<\/a>, south <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>, after which a man died from what were described as \u201ccatastrophic injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It brings to six the total number of arrests made so far following the alleged brawl at an abandoned premises in the South County Business Park last month which saw several men hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two further men, aged in their 20s and 40s, were arrested in Dublin on Tuesday. Both have since been released without charge, a Garda spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Files are to be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and investigations are ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men, Kevin Rostas (21) of Harrington Street, Dublin 8, and Cristian Demian (23) of Howth Road, appeared before D\u00fan Laoghaire District Court in connection with the incident last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They were accused of violent disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CCTV footage capturing some of the incident showed weapons and implements used during the fight, including poles, sticks and shovels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Siminic Rostas (24) died on September 1st at Beaumont Hospital\u2019s intensive care unit after suffering \u201ccatastrophic injuries\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was struck twice with a shovel before he was rendered unconscious, and was struck again after, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred at an abandoned premises in which about 15 members of the Roma community had resided for several months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It was claimed the accused and three others came to the site, stating they were there to collect personal property from someone at the premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The detectives said there was a subsequent verbal dispute that escalated to violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A third man, Augustin Rostas, also previously appeared in court faced with the same charge. The 22-year-old, with addresses at Convent Place, Hatch Street Lower, and Kevin Street, Dublin 2, was granted conditional bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A fourth man was arrested on Sunday in connection with the incident and subsequently released without charge to allow for a file to be prepared for the DPP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two further arrests have been made by garda\u00ed investigating an incident of violent disorder in Leopardstown, south Dublin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[615,42,16797,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-619613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dublin","tag-headlines","tag-leopardstown","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619613","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=619613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}