{"id":267287,"date":"2026-01-04T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/267287\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:24:07","slug":"gardai-investigate-new-years-day-attack-on-two-men-in-north-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/267287\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigate New Year\u2019s Day attack on two men in north Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><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\u00ed<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> are investigating an attack on New Year\u2019s Day resulting in the assault of two men at a property, with one of the victims losing a significant amount of blood after sustaining knife wounds to his fingers. It is understood he was in bed when his attackers broke into his family home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/swords\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/swords\/\">Swords<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A second man who was at the property was also injured, though his condition was believed to be less serious after the attack. While paramedics tended to the victims at the scene, both men \u2013 aged in their 30s and 40s \u2013 needed to be taken to hospital for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The motive for the break-in and serious assault was not immediately clear, though garda\u00ed said they were treating the incident as a burglary that turned violent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cGarda\u00ed received a report of an aggravated burglary at a house in Swords, Co Dublin, which occurred at around 7am on January 1st,\u201d Garda Headquarters said in reply to queries. \u201cTwo males received hospital treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. Investigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Photographs purporting to be of the scene have been circulating online and on messaging apps, with the bed clothes in the room where some of the violence was meted out left drenched in blood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The images also capture a large amount of blood on the floor of the property as well as the wrappings from dressings and other items which appear to have been discarded by paramedics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed in Dublin are investigating an attack on New Year\u2019s Day resulting in the assault of two men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,10411,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-267287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-dublin","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-swords","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115838705019462045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267287","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=267287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}