{"id":139966,"date":"2025-10-23T06:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139966\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:53:13","slug":"23-arrests-after-second-night-of-protests-in-citywest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139966\/","title":{"rendered":"23 arrests after second night of protests in Citywest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three people have been arrested during a second night of disturbances at the Citywest accommodation centre in Dublin, which garda\u00ed say was predominantly carried out by teenagers and young adult males.<\/p>\n<p>Missiles and fireworks were thrown at garda\u00ed and the public order unit along with other specialist units were deployed to disperse the crowd last night.<\/p>\n<p>Over 300 garda\u00ed were involved in policing the protests. Two were injured and taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The policing operation began just before 7pm as garda\u00ed prevented protesters arriving at Citywest from gathering in large numbers to form a critical mass.<\/p>\n<p>Uniformed garda\u00ed in soft caps directed people to leave the area under Section 8 of the Public Order Act<\/p>\n<p>They also linked arms and formed lines, which protesters tried to breach, and were subjected to verbal abuse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gardai with riot shields\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00235cdd-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gardai with riot shields, garda vans\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00235cdc-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Missiles were thrown at garda\u00ed, two were injured, one in the arm or shoulder, while one officer was hit on the head with a bottle. Both were treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks were also fired at garda\u00ed and the graduated policing response was escalated.<\/p>\n<p>Groups of men broke masonry off the road and the Luas stop to throw at garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>The public order and mounted units were deployed to push protesters back as the graduated policing plan was stepped up. The water cannon was on standby but not used.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\".\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00235c90-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nMembers of the public were moved away from the area by garda\u00ed<\/p>\n<p>The air support and dog units along with 150 uniform garda\u00ed and 120 public order officers were also involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Justice again commended garda\u00ed yesterday for what he called their professional response to the &#8220;thuggish violence at Citywest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jim O&#8217;Callaghan said that many people have been arrested, more will follow and they will be charged, named and dealt with &#8220;relentlessly&#8221; by the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/dublin\/2025\/1021\/1539848-citywest-protest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trouble had previously broken out at the Citywest accommodation centre on Tuesday during a protest attended by around 2,000 people.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An investigation to identify all those involved is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration had began after a man had appeared in court charged with the alleged sexual assault of a girl in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 30 people have now been arrested and many of these are expected in court on public order charges later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-three people have been arrested during a second night of disturbances at the Citywest accommodation centre in Dublin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-139966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115422167318538999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139966","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=139966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}