{"id":144909,"date":"2025-10-25T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144909\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:43:09","slug":"man-arrested-over-alleged-assault-on-catherine-connolly-canvassers-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144909\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over alleged assault on Catherine Connolly canvassers \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A man has been arrested by garda\u00ed investigating an alleged assault on two women during canvassing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/catherine-connolly\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/catherine-connolly\/\">Catherine Connolly<\/a> in north Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The alleged assault occurred in North Strand Road as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sinn-fein\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/sinn-fein\/\">Sinn F\u00e9in<\/a> leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mary-lou-mcdonald\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mary-lou-mcdonald\/\">Mary Lou McDonald<\/a> joined the canvass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A video posted online appears to show a man approaching a canvass team for Ms Connolly and shouting threats to \u201cdeck\u201d and \u201cslap\u201d some of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">It was reported to garda\u00ed that two  women had been assaulted in North Strand Road shortly before 4pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They did not require medical treatment at the scene but garda\u00ed said they understand one of the females has since attended the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for further assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Saturday, garda\u00ed said they had arrested a man in his 30s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a Garda station in the Dublin Metropolitan Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He can be questioned for up to 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesperson said: \u201cInvestigations are ongoing.\u201d &#8211; PA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested by garda\u00ed investigating an alleged assault on two women during canvassing for Catherine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,16594,5,59,47,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-144909","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-catherine-connolly","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-presidential-election","24":"tag-sinn-fein","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115435811844725875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144909","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=144909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}