{"id":34610,"date":"2025-08-31T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34610\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:40:08","slug":"man-in-serious-condition-in-hospital-following-dublin-city-centre-attack-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34610\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in serious condition in hospital following Dublin city centre attack \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has been left with serious injuries following an assault in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> city centre early on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The victim, who is in his 40s, was attacked at about 6.30am on Westmoreland Street in Dublin 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/0\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/0\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> and emergency services responded to the incident and the victim was brought to St James\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He remains there in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Garda preserved scenes on Westmoreland Street and O'Connell Street. Photograph: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/S4ZOYU3GYANM5XHTH5VY7RLRXY.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"493\"\/>Garda preserved scenes on Westmoreland Street and O&#8217;Connell Street. Photograph: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Photograph: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SXJ76IFWW6KD7TUGF4CY2R46SI.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Photograph: Stephen Collins\/Collins Photos <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Several areas of Westmoreland Street and O\u2019Connell Street across the river were cordoned off by investigators for technical examination but have now reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Garda said investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been left with serious injuries following an assault in Dublin city centre early on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,12950,7,8,26931],"class_list":{"0":"post-34610","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-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-news","22":"tag-o-connell-street","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-westmoreland-street"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610","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=34610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}