A 65-year-old man has been charged with the attempted murder of a doctor at a HSE facility in Dublin yesterday.<\/p>\n
Fionnbarra \u00d3 Tuama, with an address at George’s Hill Apartments on Halston St in Dublin, appeared before a sitting of Dublin District Court this morning.<\/p>\n
He was charged with the attempted murder of Dr Kevin Kilbride on 30 October at HSE Daycare Medical Clinic, 9 Ushers Island, Dublin 8.<\/p>\n
Detective Garda Mark Dennehy gave evidence of Mr \u00d3 Tuama’s arrest, charge, and caution.<\/p>\n
He said that he gave no reply when the charge was read to him.<\/p>\n
Representing the defendant, Andrea Callan said that her client would be seeking legal aid, and that an application for bail would be made at a later date.<\/p>\n
She also requested that he receive psychiatric and medical attention.<\/p>\n
Judge Mich\u00e9le Finan granted the request, and Mr \u00d3 Tuama was remanded in custody to Cloverhill Prison.<\/p>\n
He is due to appear before Cloverhill District Court on Wednesday via videolink.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred at the clinic at around 9am yesterday morning.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed from Kevin Street station and the Armed Support Unit attended the scene.<\/p>\n
Dr Kilbride was treated at the scene before being taken to St James’s Hospital where he is continuing to receive treatment.<\/p>\n
The HSE said it is providing support for Dr Kilbride, as well as other staff members at the clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old man has been charged with the attempted murder of a doctor at a HSE facility in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-670949","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\/670949","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=670949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}