{"id":349933,"date":"2026-02-22T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/349933\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:31:07","slug":"two-charged-in-connection-with-temple-bar-assault-that-left-man-critically-injured-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/349933\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged in connection with Temple Bar assault that left man critically injured \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two men have been charged in connection with an assault in Dublin city centre earlier this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/02\/19\/gardai-seek-help-identifying-unconscious-man-following-serious-assault-in-dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/02\/19\/gardai-seek-help-identifying-unconscious-man-following-serious-assault-in-dublin\/\">left a man critically injured<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a> confirmed the charges in a press release circulated on Saturday night. The men, aged in their 20s and 30s, are due to appear before Dublin District Court on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They had been arrested on Friday in connection with the incident, which happened on Cope Street at around 12.30am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Following arrest, garda\u00ed confirmed the pair remained in custody under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The injured man, whose age is unknown, remains in a critical condition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>\u2019s Beaumont Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood the man was not able to communicate with medical staff or garda\u00ed after being brought to hospital and that no next of kin initially came forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The extensive nature of the injuries to his face were complicating efforts to determine his identity. Following a public appeal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/2026\/02\/21\/two-men-arrested-after-serious-assault-on-unidentified-man-in-dublins-temple-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/2026\/02\/21\/two-men-arrested-after-serious-assault-on-unidentified-man-in-dublins-temple-bar\/\">garda\u00ed have identified the man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been charged in connection with an assault in Dublin city centre earlier this week that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,52,18,13,14,8030,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,26479,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-349933","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-dublin","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-garda-siochana","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-temple-bar","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116111939053295410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349933","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=349933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}