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A WOMAN WAS the victim of a serious assault at St Stephen’s Green in Dublin city centre today.
It happened at around 3:30pm.
Gardaí confirmed to TheJournal.ie that the woman was taken to hospital but her condition is not known.
A man has been arrested in relation to the assault and he is being held at Pearse Street Garda Station.
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A busy city park on a sunny afternoon. There’s a location that you’d figure safety in numbers might apply. Nope. It’s no longer our city. Dublin belongs to the underclass.
What the heck is underclass
I, for one, welcome our new underclass overlords!
How judgemental you are,
I wonder what their policy is on water charges
There is no such thing as so called class in Ireland my good man, only decent people and dirt birds Money doesn’t make someone a better person, many a privileged fcuker has been jailed for voilent acts against the person. Unfortunately for us, some judges do think that there is class distinction hence light sentences handed down to some serious dangerous people
One assault in a city centre park does not a crime wave make.
@deputydawg you do remember the 4 blackrock lads that got away with murder. we may not have a class distinction but money can buy you freedom in the way of a solicitor that knows more tricks and loop holes.
No murder was committed for them to get away with
@Anna Kearns Yes, you’re right of course. They probably came from broken homes and we should hug them and provide free counselling, legal services and offer them absolution. Did you ever hear the phrase “Judge me by my deeds not my words”. No one should be allowed get way with that behaviour without repercussion. Even if it turns out that there is mental instability involved, measured and appropriate repercussions should be meted out. People have the right to feel safe from assault on our streets or anywhere else and that should be protected above all else.
Correction above @ Anna Kerins
If you think there is no class system in Ireland you are blind to how any society works. There is no such thing as a classless society. Ever notice how rich people have rich kids and poor people have poor kids? It’s as simple as that. You have a load of poor people, a lot of people in the middle and a few rich at the top. Violence is not unique to any group though.
The amount of druggies and homeless people around that area it comes as no surprise
Hope she’ll be ok. As for the point about homeless people , I think that’s a bit harsh.
Amount of druggies? Really? Please learn English.
It may not be The Queen’s English, but it’s a perfectly acceptable colloquial expression in Dublin, and I would say most of Ireland.
If Dubs knew of the word “my”, then maybe I would agree with you.
Me arse!
Of course,the english specialists are out in force today I see.
My my Qwerty yor only a scaldy bollox
But unfair to pin it on a homeless person yet seeing that all it says is a serious assault and a man has been arrested
Me bollix!
How do you know the attacker was a druggie or homeless person Alan? Please do enlighten us.
Was Graham Dwyer homeless? Malcolm McArthur?
and what about all the alcoholics in the pubs?
You should see the inner Northside of the city if you consider Stephens green a hairy spot. Total zoo.
The majority of offenders arrested within the city centre are NOT from the area but from the suburbs.
Never said where they were from. Needless to say I don’t hang around to conduct a poll to find out
and yet you point towards the north inner city
And yet that’s where I work. My god you are really angling for one tonight
Lived and worked in the north inner city for decades. It’s got lots of thieves and muggers and isn’t safe at all. And next stop is East Wall and Murder Park. Delightful area. I have loved ones who live there and I fear for their safety every day. Most people there are decent – but there are very many who really are not. It needs to be addressed, it’s like that for as long as I can remember
If the Gardai did their job properly instead of hiding behind bus shelters doing speed traps on the n11 etc.one officer per patrol car instead of two/three would also help!
Fair point on the traffic corps, howwver the Gardai would be useless at 1 to a patrol car. They simply need more numbers, end of.
Part of their job is traffic police, so surely hiding behind bus stops to catch people speeding or using bus lanes is doing their job correctly. As much as we might not like it. Like most work places, their role is split into various divisions, not everyone in the Gardai has the same work description!!
And if people observed speed limits then we would have more Gardai on the beat !
That description fits the bus shelter after the fly-over at UCD … they have been there since God-knows-when! If people had learned, not to speed there, the Gardaí would be long gone from there!
see if there was even some gardai on the beat then it might help but I have to say I think it has to be the only city that doesn’t have gardai patrolling around day or night .
My prob is seeing them out at
Check points for motor tax, surely there’s a better way in this day and age, traffic cameras at busy junctions, motorways? All the info is there on database anyway, they could just bill people when their tax is due??
Looks like Fred was caught speeding recently…
more numbers @Emily? what is the magical number you seek?
@TallaghtTwo: More cops is what I mean. It’s not just media hype/stats, the amount of Gardai has visibly dropped all over the country yet our population is steadily increasing which makes no sense (same goes for most public services). Fair point no?
yep 99% protect money and the government and of course make money for the government with speed traps, 1% protect ordinary people
Funny reading the article and can’t find were it states it was an addict or druggie as some may call those ruffians.
Good point Alan, and with one man arrested it could just as easily of been a domestic issue. People all very quick to jump to conclusions without any facts (not saying it WAS a domestic or “druggie” before I get slammed, fact is we don’t know).
I agree. It’s extremely unlikely that this was an attempted robbery of a stranger by a junkie given the time of day and the busy location. More than likely this was an argument that got out of hand between 2 people who knew each other. It’s all speculation though. Let’s see what the facts are before condemning the city.
“It’s all speculation though.”
So, maybe people should stop speculating?
The speculation shouldn’t be taken too seriously is what I’m saying.
I was agreeing with you, my comment was aimed more at some of the more imaginative posts, not yours. A lot of people seem to have their crystal balls out and are speculating wildly. Demonising homeless people is so unfair, the majority are people down on their luck, not bad people, just unfortunate ones.
Let’s send all the junkies to Syria to get radicalised and lend them to ISIS as cannon fodder. Every scobe in the city could be promised a nirvana in the desert.
It could have been someone she knew and not a random attack?
Probably owed someone money
Ahh yes we just cant help jumping to conclusions, junkies the scapegoats of society, just like when that bloke was gunned down, an some people assumed he must have been a drug dealer. I guess some believe assumption over facts…..
What if the lady in question is a homeless drug addict. Where would you lay the blame? Probably with her, because they get what they deserve don’t they
Yes, pretty much.
I’ve never seen gardai in the green and I pass thru most days during lunch.. maybe if there was it might deter this kind of crime..
You say that as if this kind of crime happens regularly in the green….
eh no? stating an observation
Exactly Mark; it’s the first assault I can remember happening in the Green (and I walk through it without incident every day), so I don’t think we need to divert Garda resources to policing it.
..so u haven’t seen the increase of who ‘look to be junkies’ hanging in the bushes as u walk by?
Over the years at least 2 women have been raped in the Green and one of these happened on a sunny summers day and the parks was full of people. The young woman pleaded with people who were lying in the sun near her to help and they didn’t. There is no such thing as a safe public park and I agree with the Molzer. I walk my 2 dogs in Stephens Green twice a day and have done so for more than 2 years and I could count on one hand the amount of times I have seen them patrolling it. Amazing given the amount of junkies that hang around in it all day. Up in the part where they often have lunchtime plays during the summer months is usually packed with the not so local hash heads. As for the locals, well I’m one of them and I can assure you that the local kids and teenagers tend not to hang around this area.
Hope she’s doing well – life scars now – if anything gets me is this shite. More Guards needed for walking the beat !
Sad situation ..hope victim is ok..Who are we judge anyone….Mindless chatter all trying to outsmart each other ..pathetic..
Doubt it was a druggie. I know of girl was assaulted in work. In her actual job in front of customers and staff. Won’t describe what he did but was stalking her apparently and she had never even seen him before. Took three security guards to pin him down. Big man and not Irish. She is needless to say affected by this luckily she wasn’t as BSD as this case. Hope she is OK thoughts and love with you sweetheart.
Summer time in Dublin used to be something to look forward to
Not even safe in a popular tourist City Centre area on a sunny afternoon anymore
Stupid comment
what is ?
S…bag hope all his children go blind and bump into each other
Not enough info, as usual
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