{"id":145055,"date":"2025-10-25T19:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145055\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:07:15","slug":"man-30s-arrested-over-alleged-assault-on-catherine-connolly-canvasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145055\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (30s) arrested over alleged assault on Catherine Connolly canvasser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>man<\/strong> has been <strong>arrested<\/strong> by garda\u00ed investigating an <strong>alleged assault<\/strong> on two <strong>women<\/strong> during <strong>canvassing<\/strong> for <strong>Catherine Connolly<\/strong> in north <strong>Dublin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged assault occurred in North Strand Road as Sinn F\u00e9in leader <strong>Mary Lou<\/strong> McDonald <strong>joined<\/strong> the <strong>canvass<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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>It was reported to garda\u00ed that two females had been assaulted in North Strand Road shortly before 4pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>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>On Saturday, gardai said they had arrested a man in his 30s.<\/p>\n<p>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>He can be questioned for up to 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>A Garda spokesperson said: \u201cInvestigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/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":145056,"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-145055","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\/115436378118298231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145055","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=145055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}