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A MAN AT the centre of a sexual assault allegation in Citywest is set to be deported from Ireland, it has been confirmed, after he had earlier learned that the charges against him were being dropped.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Friday, the State dropped charges against the man in relation to alleged sexual assault in Dublin last year, in a case that sparked a riot targeting people in asylum accommodation in Citywest.<\/p>\n
The man, aged in his 20s, was then arrested by garda\u00ed from the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) on foot of a deportation order.<\/p>\n
The arrest took place in the Midlands area and the man is currently in custody.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo additional information is available at this time,\u201d a garda spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old man, who can\u2019t be named for legal reasons, had appeared in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court earlier on Friday by video link.<\/p>\n
He was charged with two counts of sexual assault at a location in Dublin on 20 October 2025.<\/p>\n
A senior counsel representing the State told Judge Martin Nolan that nolle prosequis were being entered in relation to both charges, meaning they were being withdrawn.<\/p>\n
Judge Nolan told the man he should be released from custody. The man replied \u201cthank you\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s riot<\/p>\n
The claims of sexual assault resulted in a two-hour-long stand-off outside international protection accommodation, also known as an Ipas centre, in Citywest.<\/p>\n
Dozens were arrested and three garda\u00ed were injured amid the scenes, which also saw a garda van set alight.<\/p>\n
It also drew attention from global right-wing media, with streamers and newsrooms from the UK, Canada and Spain all covering the scenes from the ground.<\/p>\n
Large crowds had chanted \u201cget them out\u201d, referring to people in international protection accommodation who were staying in the hotel.<\/p>\n
Missiles were directed at the uniformed garda\u00ed at the scene, including bricks, fireworks and glass bottles.<\/p>\n
With reporting by Eoghan Dalton and Niall O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 3 hrs ago A MAN AT the centre of a sexual assault allegation in Citywest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35942,61744,62041,615,55,61,60,43,2733,51180],"class_list":["post-663305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-citywest","tag-deportation","tag-dublin","tag-garda","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-october","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663305","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=663305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}