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A MAN WAS viciously assaulted while walking home from the Luas on Sunday evening as gardaí attempt to quell multiple acts of anti-social behaviour in the Dublin 8 area.
The man underwent surgery on his jaw after he was attacked by a group of youths as he walked home with his wife on the Suir Road at around 5.20pm.
Both the victim and his wife were travelling on the Red Line Luas when a group of teenagers started to pass comment on what was in their shopping bags.
According to the victim’s mother, the couple ignored the taunts and got off at their stop at around 5.20pm when they were followed by the group who then attacked the man from behind.
The man suffered injuries to his face and body and received a broken jaw. He has since had surgery and has been told he cannot eat solids for six weeks.
As he was unable to talk, his mother told TheJournal.ie that when they called the gardaí, they were told they were not in a position to attend the assault as there were “no cars” to come out.
“They phoned 999 and then after 20 minutes of waiting, they decided to go home. They rang again and told the guards where they’d be. Still, nobody came. What really got to us was that nobody bothered to get in touch with him. He was in hospital getting surgery. They told him to come in and give a statement.
“We were concerned that the CCTV from the Luas might be deleted. The morning after the attack, my husband went to Kilmainham Garda Station and asked why they hadn’t come up to his son. They said ‘we had no car’.”
The mother said that she told them it was not acceptable and that word spread about what had happened to her son.
“The victim should be put first but they weren’t in this case. It could have been a lot worse.”
That particular area of Dublin 8 has been plagued by anti-social behaviour since the start of last year.
In December of last year, TheJournal.ie reported how two cyclists were targeted with metal bars as they attempted to go home from a day’s work.
An Garda Síochána has been contacted for comment.
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Fantastic piece of journalism
- “Brexit was Johnson’s England project. Northern Ireland an afterthought.”
Johnson reasoned as follows: ‘If I back Brexit, then if Leave wins I can be PM, but if it doesn’t I can still wriggle my way into No. 10. But if I back staying in the EU, Remain needs to win for me to be PM, and if it’s Leave I’m done for.’ In other words, backing Brexit left him with both possible worlds to be PM, instead of just one.
So in that sense he was being entirely rational, except that Northern Ireland wasn’t even an afterthought, since he simply didn’t care. He rode on a wave of what was essentially an ‘English independence’ vote, and ended up shafting all of Ireland in the process. Including even the DUP. It’s hard to feel sorry for that sorry bunch, but to my own astonishment I’ve actually ended up pitying them.
@Mick Tobin: Nice analysis, he even prepared both positions.
@Mick Tobin: Well said. Nail on head.
When Ress-Mogg becomes PM, there will be a tectonic shift.
@François Pignon: oh no !!!Ress-Mogg, worse than Boris….
@Maurice Whelan: It won’t be Moggy but it’s hard to say which way this going to go. Defence secretary Ben Wallace is a frontrunner with the bookies, apparently because he’s seen as the somewhat boring (this is a plus) mirror image of Johnson, a steady hand who’d be pragmatic when it comes to relations with the EU, and hence with Ireland.
Incidentally a name like that might get Scottish nationalists worried. But it could still be Liz Truss, who might be even worse than Johnson (and therefore better for the SNP). We’ll have to wait and see I guess.
@Mick Tobin: The Scots just need the Tories to stay in power. They are so despised in Scotland it won’t really matter who the PM is in my opinion, although someone like Truss would be good for independence.
SNP worst nightmare would be not getting a referendum in this government term and Labour winning the next general election. However, Labour cant win a general election as they can’t win without Scottish votes and the SNP have Scotland sown up. Tories don’t need a single vote in Scotland to get into number 10 and that is the difference. Tories will continue to govern the U.K. for the foreseeable.
He must have forgot that NI politics was Fecked well before Borris came along.
Great article and shows that the press have to write a lot of the pieces through gritted teeth
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