{"id":134306,"date":"2025-10-20T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/134306\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:01:10","slug":"gardai-launch-probe-into-alleged-assault-of-female-child-at-citywest-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/134306\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardai launch probe into alleged assault of female child at Citywest Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers were called to the scene of the alleged incident on the grounds of the Citywest Hotel in Saggart, west Dublin this morning<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_citywest.jpg\" alt=\"19\/07\/2022 - Citywest Hotel in Saggart, Co. Dublin (file photo)\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>19\/07\/2022 &#8211; Citywest Hotel in Saggart, Co. Dublin (file photo)(Image: Collins)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GardaiLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gardai<\/a> are investigating the alleged assault of a female child in Citywest, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/dublin\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Co DublinLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Co Dublin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Officers were called to the scene of the alleged incident on the grounds of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/news\/irish-news\/government-buys-citywest-hotel-148m-35408305\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Citywest HotelLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Citywest Hotel<\/a> in Saggart, west Dublin on Monday morning. A man was arrested at the scene and an area was sealed off by gardai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">The incident occurred on the site which was recently purchased by <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/irish-government\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the Irish governmentLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Irish government<\/a> for more than \u20ac148 million to turn it into a permanent international protection accommodation centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">In a statement to The Irish Mirror gardai said: &#8220;Garda\u00ed are investigating an alleged assault of a female juvenile reported to have occurred at Saggart, Co. Dublin on Monday, 20th October 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">&#8220;A male (30s) has been arrested and is currently detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda Station in the Dublin region. Investigations are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Sign up to the <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=af475e3d-0f62-4122-8ccc-323a78c47a81&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Irish Mirror&#039;s Courts and Crime newsletter hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Irish Mirror&#8217;s Courts and Crime newsletter here<\/a><\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"> and get breaking crime updates and news from the courts direct to your inbox.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers were called to the scene of the alleged incident on the grounds of the Citywest Hotel in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,16470,715,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,41035,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-134306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-clondalkin","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-tallaght","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}