{"id":7148,"date":"2025-08-18T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7148\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:15:07","slug":"garda-ombudsman-investigates-after-man-injured-following-interaction-with-gardai-in-dublin-city-centre-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7148\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda Ombudsman investigates after man injured following interaction with garda\u00ed in Dublin city centre \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fiosru\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fiosru\">Garda Ombudsman<\/a> is appealing for witnesses following the \u201cserious harm\u201d of a man in Dublin city centre after he interacted with<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><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Friday, left the 51-year-old with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fiosr\u00fa, the Office of the Police Ombudsman, is tasked with investigating complaints regarding the conduct of garda\u00ed and deaths with a connection Garda activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are legally required to report any incident involving death or serious injury to the ombudsman if it occurred following an interaction with a member of the force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A referral to the ombudsman does not necessarily mean a garda is accused of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda headquarters did not respond to specific queries about the nature of the involvement of members in Friday\u2019s incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It said it referred the matter to Fiosr\u00fa \u201cfollowing an interaction between a member of the public and an on duty Garda Member on Friday 15th August 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAs this matter has been referred to the police ombudsman, any further queries should be directed to Fiosr\u00fa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fiosr\u00fa, formerly known as the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Ombudsman (Gsoc), said it wants to hear from anyone who was near the Holiday Inn on O\u2019Connell Street at about 4.15am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This includes passing vehicles and taxis that may have dashcam or mobile phone footage from the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident was referred to Fiosr\u00fa by garda\u00ed and one of the ombudsman\u2019s on-call investigators attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAnyone with information which may be of assistance to this independent investigation is asked to contact Fiosr\u00fa at 0818 600 800 or info@fiosr\u00fa.ie,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Garda Ombudsman is appealing for witnesses following the \u201cserious harm\u201d of a man in Dublin city centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[956,79,18,5650,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-7148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-fiosru","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","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=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}