{"id":199907,"date":"2025-11-25T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199907\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:52:10","slug":"woman-was-sprayed-with-a-substance-and-set-on-fire-after-answering-door-at-house-in-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199907\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman was sprayed with a substance and set on fire after answering door at house in Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman has suffered serious burns after she was sprayed with an accelerant and set alight at a property in Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman\u2019s face was badly burned in the attack, it is understood. A man was also taken to hospital with injuries he suffered during the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman answered the door to a caller at the property in the Oak Downs area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/clondalkin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/clondalkin\/\">Clondalkin<\/a>, Dublin 22, just after 10am on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As she opened the door, a substance, possibly petrol, was sprayed at her and she was set on fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are trying to determine how the attacker travelled to the scene, though it is suspected he was on a motorbike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Although the investigation into the attack is still in its early stages, garda\u00ed believe significant planning was involved and it appeared to be targeted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Minister for Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jim-ocallaghan\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jim-ocallaghan\/\">Jim O\u2019Callaghan<\/a> said he was \u201cshocked by this morning\u2019s horrific attack on a woman in Clondalkin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI have been briefed on the attack by the garda\u00ed, and I join with them in appealing to anyone with information to come forward so that the perpetrator of this vicious attack can be brought to justice,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda Headquarters confirmed the woman was \u201cremoved from the scene to hospital to be treated for burn injuries, which are believed to be serious\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It also said a man was being \u201ctreated for injuries believed to be non-life threatening\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Garda statement also said: \u201cThe scene has been preserved for technical examination. A senior investigating officer has been appointed and an incident room has been established in Clondalkin Garda station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone who was in the Oak Downs area of Clondalkin between 9.30am and 10.20am on Tuesday and who may have video footage, including from a dashcam, is asked to contact garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has suffered serious burns after she was sprayed with an accelerant and set alight at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,16470,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-199907","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-dublin","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-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115612086784019589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199907","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=199907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}