{"id":150229,"date":"2025-10-28T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/150229\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:08:08","slug":"victim-of-alleged-temple-bar-assault-dies-in-uk-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/150229\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of alleged Temple Bar assault dies in UK \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">An English tourist who was allegedly assaulted following a confrontation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/temple-bar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/temple-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Bar<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin<\/a> two months ago has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, who was aged in his 40s, was hospitalised with serious head injuries following the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was later repatriated to the UK where he died last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident occurred in the early hours of the morning of August 21st in the Temple Bar Square area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda<\/a> spokesman confirmed the victim died on Saturday. He said the Garda could not comment further as the matter is now before the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Darragh O\u2019Brien, a 22-year-old man of no fixed address, was later arrested and charged with assault causing harm in relation to the incident. He remains before the courts and has yet to indicate a plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is alleged Mr O\u2019Brien kicked the victim in the head during the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2025\/08\/21\/english-tourist-in-critical-condition-following-assault-in-temple-bar\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">English tourist in critical condition following assault in Temple BarOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The court heard the victim left a Temple Bar pub and engaged in a verbal altercation with the accused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A physical altercation followed in which Mr O\u2019Brien allegedly launched four kicks towards the victim, one of which hit his stomach and chest area, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The victim was then allegedly kicked in the head and knocked unconscious upon falling to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was initially taken to St James\u2019s Hospital on the night of the assault but was later transferred to Beaumont Hospital to undergo emergency specialist surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An English tourist who was allegedly assaulted following a confrontation in Temple Bar in Dublin two months ago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,52,67859,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,26479,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-150229","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-dublin","12":"tag-dublin-2","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-temple-bar","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115453841080613725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150229","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=150229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}