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LAST UPDATE | 19 Jul 2019
A MAN HAS been arrested after after a man was stabbed to death in Dublin overnight.
The incident occurred in the North Strand area of the city at 4am this morning at Clinchs Court, North Strand, Dublin 1.
A man (45) sustained serious injuries and was removed to the Mater Hospital where he later passed away.
A second man, also in his mid-40s, was injured and taken to St James Hospital where he is being treated for his injuries.
Hayley Halpin / TwitterThe scene at the North Strand area in Dublin where a man (40s) was fatally stabbed overnight. pic.twitter.com/jjlZxOJTds
— Hayley Halpin (@HayleyHalpin1) July 19, 2019
Gardaí confirmed this afternoon that they had arrested a man (45) this morning in relation to the incident. He is being detained at Mountjoy Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.
A post-mortem will take place laster today by Dr Margaret Bolster, State Pathologist.
The scene has been preserved and the garda technical bureau remain there.
Gardaí are appealing for anyone who may have been in the area between 3am and 4.15am, or any passing taxis with dash cam footage to contact Mountjoy Garda Station on 01 6668600, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.
With reporting from Hayley Halpin and Cormac Fitzgerald
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Remember when Dublin media were branding Limerick, Stab City and then it received such negative coverage that it still effects tourism today. Would love to know the stats because the regularity of murders and stabbings in Dublin now is becoming ridiculous..
@Glenn O’hAilpín: what exactly is Dublin media and what size is Dublin compared to Limerick?
@GrumpyAulFella: Dublin media would the be the major journalist institutions that represent this country (based in Dublin with maybe exception of Examiner) … and then as for size.. I think if you did want to take that pro rata approach that you are promoting you may find that the 1.3m in Dublin and 3.4m outside Dublin.. there is a far greater portion of crime, murder, stabbings in Dublin. Clown.
@Glenn O’hAilpín: are you from Stab City yourself?
@Glenn O’hAilpín: the only clown here is you.
@Glenn O’hAilpín: Limerick is a kip and will always be stab city
@Glenn O’hAilpín: just to put you straight on a couple of things. You’re referring to the national media who have their HQs in Dublin. Where do you think the vast majority of their journalists are from? Hint, it’s not Dublin. The phrase “stab city” was made popular by a comic writer for Scrap Saturday called Gerry Stembridge. Guess where he’s from? Frank McCourt used it in Angela’s Ashes and brought it to the attention of the national media, based in Dublin. Guess where Frank is from? Clown is right.
@Glenn O’hAilpín: a your mad another hater your problem working in Dublin owelone
@Glenn O’hAilpín: yes they were wrong to brand Limerick stab city it should have been Stab town
@Conor Thorne: stab farm
@Jumperoo: nope unlike these clowns I dont hide behind a fake account. You can see where I come from with click of a button :)
@GrumpyAulFella: Let’s all remember that the media didn’t perform the killings in Limerick… Let’s remember that in 2007, there were over 103 shootings in Limerick. That’s about one every three days. Some years, there were dozens of bomb attacks in the city. The stabbings were generally for some high profile gang members (remember when yer man was stabbed 17 times in the face and survived?!!?). So yeah, Dublin had a stabbing last night, but Limerick, for a city of it’s size, thoroughly earned it’s title in the early noughties, but folks memories fade over time and the quantity of reporting has increased, meaning things can seem worse, when they’re actually far improved.
@GrumpyAulFella: so are u saying dublin doesn’t have a murder issue now? Every flipping day someone is murdered there now. It’s crazy.
@Jumperoo: I’m not from Limerick and he’s making a valid point. You have your head stuck in the ground if u think otherwise.
@GrumpyAulFella: have u a link to support your opinion that most of the journalists are not from Dublin? Or is that just u guessing?
@Ciarán Ó Fallúin: Dublin had a stabbing last night????? Dublin has a murder every day now. It’s as bad as London. Having a pop at limerick is gross hypocrisy. Dublin and Louth have an epidemic now and that’s a fact, not fiction.
@Glenn O’hAilpín: Its actually on average with every other capital city in Western Europe hardly ridiculous theres probably one murder a month.
@ant: can you point me to where I said that?
@ant: Ireland has the 11th lowest homicide rate in Europe and the 23rd lowest in the world, according to a United Nations (UN) study. At a rate of 0.9 per 100,000 it’s ways down vs the 2007 rate of 1.8 per 100,000. What about super recent stats… Like how the annualised crime rate for homicides is down 14% vs 2018 in the latest CSO report. I’m not out to have a pop at Limerick, but I’m trying to help people realise that just because you wake up and before you have one trouser leg on, you know if there was a punch up outside a bar in Banagher last night, it doesn’t mean that things are worse today than they used to be.
@Ciarán Ó Fallúin: I’ve no problem with anyone trying to defend their town and city but not someone with a chip on their shoulder about my city and the “Dublin media” which suggests that Dublin people have a problem with Limerick, which we don’t. All cities have city problems.
@Ciarán Ó Fallúin: Those stats are for Ireland as a whole. A more accurate picture would be Dublins 1.3m Vs another EU city of 1.3m over the last 6 months specifically.
@GrumpyAulFella: I’m not from Limerick, nor do I live in Limerick. I dont see any issue with expressing my opinion that there was an established understanding at the time that a clever way to sell papers was to adopt the Stab City branding. It’s just Marketing. However from watching and reading the news these last few months MY OPINION is that there is not that same approach taken by the media as was taken with Limerick. And it is an opinion… and this chip that I supposedly have.. many others seem to agree.
@Glenn O’hAilpín: but I thought only people outside the Pale got stabbed … inside the Pale it’s called an assault!
@Glenn O’hAilpín: the Dublin media Haha. Idiot
@Glenn O’hAilpín: I get tired of this Dublin/non Dublin sniping.
You all have lovely bottoms.
@Ciarán Ó Fallúin: I wasn’t talking about Ireland I was talking about Dublin. And I was also talking about right now at this moment in time
@ant: Well, then Dublin has 1 Infinity percent more murders than the rest of the Ireland in the past 48 hours.
As for those attacking Dublin or other parts, across the last 5 quarters of stats, (2018 + Q1 2019) there were 93 homicides, with 27 of them being in the Dublin area, 8 in the south east, 11 in the East, 16 in Southern (Cork + Kerry + Limerick), 10 in Western and 21 in Northern region (Louth, Cavan, Mon, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal).
By population, Dublin is a bit higher, but hardly by much, right? So, I guess the main thing here is folks remember what they want to remember.
Stats from the CSO statbank site.
@Ciarán Ó Fallúin: you know that direct links will actually copy and paste here right? I just checked out CSO page and couldn’t find anything yo that effect. Fake news. Try these.
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rc/recordedcrimeq12019/
@Glenn O’hAilpín: go to the CSO statbank table. Select all regions. Select homicide as the crime (it’s “1, Homicide” if I remember correctly). Select the periods and export to excel as a csv. Figures are there all the way back by quarter to 2003 I think.
And the winner of the 2017 2018 and 2019 Stab city title goes to DUBLIN!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS DUBLIN!
A man is dead in what must be very horrific circumstances, yet most comments are trying to score brownie points for whatever backwards town they spawned out of. It’s sad, and it’s the mentality of failure.
@Stephen O’Neill: says he, trying to brownie points in exactly the same way he us criticising others for. The irony is big with this one.
Almost as bad as London.
@Jun Stone:
The reasons for the spike in London stabbings are obvious but they, not least Sadiq Khan, wants to face them.
@The Quare Fella: in 2003, London had 221 murders. In 2018, London had 137 murders, despite the increase in population. 137 represents a spike over the past 7/8 years following cut backs in all forms to police, schools and support services. Reporting of crime has increased more than anything which leads to comments like the two above me, who think the sky is falling down on them and the reason why is foreign, despite the reality that London had twice as many murders in the city 20 years ago with a smaller population.
@Jun Stone: a simple 3 minute bit of research will show how ridiculous your comment is
Dublin is an Absolute Kip …..the Dubs on here will comment on here trying to defend their Fair Sh!ty …..
RIP
@Mark Walsh: on here… on here…. ON HERE
@Mark Walsh: you haven’t travelled much, have you? In Sydney screaming half naked meth addicts on the main streets doesn’t even warrant media scrutiny.
@Mark Walsh: Culchies are gas, Mark there’s a whole world out there outside your sisters bedroom.
@Trenchant Buffoon: they don’t in Dublin either and it full of them
@Trenchant Buffoon:
Were not in Sydney now Bud
@Trenchant Buffoon:
Were not in Sydney now Bud
@Mark Walsh: You obviously haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.
@Mark Walsh: I doubt they were Irish – seems to be a recurring trend.
Stabbed to death and is understood he received serious injury??? Condolences to his family
@Ger Buckley: heading baffled me too. If you’re dead it was probably from a serious injury alright.
Dublin is really gone to the dogs. Every morning someone has been murdered the previous day. It’s so sad to see
So I’ve tried to generate the statistics for “Offensive Weapons Offences (Possession of offensive weapons (not firearms)” from the Central Stastistics Office yourself:
https://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?maintable=CJQ02&PLanguage=0
Garda region: Select all (ctrl+click / shift+click)
Type of offence: Offensive Weapons Offences (n.e.c)
Quarter: Select as long as a timeline as you like (ctrl+click / shift+click)
Once you get the results, choose a line or a bar chart to easily see the results
- The Dublin region has far more cases of recorded offensive weapon crime
- Recorded offensive weapon crime in Dublin today (2019Q1) is almost half of what it was in 2010 (2010Q2)
@Aaron Kelly: ….have you considered trying to weight it for population… That’s often a factor when looking at crime volumes…. Obviously, the fact that since 2010, Dublin has been the centre for a large crime feud would guarantee it comes out on top regardless.
Just moved out of that street last month. Close call
It’s an Irish problem not a county one. Stop with this tribal BS
Interesting that most of the crime,murders and drug fueds are always carried out by criminals from the Inner city even when you go out to the Suburbs like Tallaght, Ballyers etc you will find that they mostly originated from the Inner city not that aren’t a lot of decent people in these areas either but it’s something they needs to be addressed as it has been getting worse in the last few years.
Please share details of the removal when known.
Seriously ??
It’s a city with 1 and a half million people in it so in this day and age like any other major cities things happen
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