You are right. It was attempted murder and should be treated as such.

They have one person in custody, but it is my belief that they are looking for others & he did not comit all of the stabbings… You should read the news as well as commenting on it.

I heard it was a sporknife!

was it not a broken bottle?

At least one of the stabbings was with a bottle. Not all…

Irrelevant, knife or bottle or sharpened toothbrush he hardly needed weaponry to enhance the music.

Irrelevant, ger is right, knife or bottle or sharpened toothbrush he hardly needed weaponry to enhance the music. Clearly intends to hurt someone

@jonno – there would be a difference insofar as taking a knife from home shows intent but a bottle you could argue was picked up in the heat of the moment / moment of madness / out of fear for own safety.

@scarr, fair point. True enough but self defense on 9 occasions? I see what you mean punishment wise but even then I’m self defense or the heat o the moment there is a diff between hitting someone over the head with a bottle and smashing a bottle over a guys head them proceeding to stab him with it. Fine you can’t stop fighting its nature but it seems that using pint glasses and bottles is tolerated and should be punished in accordance with the severity of injury that can be inflicted with weapons glass

There’s his excuse at the beginning of your comment. Just wait and see ..

In France the imprison these folk .. No such thing as manslaughter

Ha! LMBO!

Haha lmbo is as funny as the comment u replied to

Careful. Don’t bring him down to our level. He’s lower than that. Amoeba level I’d say. Woof.

Can’t see animals acting like this ..

Since we can’t test new medicines etc on animals anymore maybe we might look at people who clearly don’t value theyre place in generally civil society to help further it for the rest of us

Aidan, animals don’t go around stabbing people. Only savages do.

I wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing!

Victims?? the victim is our society i think…

Thanks Joanna but my comment seems to have been the victim of journals random-deletion fairy again. I’ll have to repost I guess.

True, my comments were like that but should he be Hugged into line? Maybe at some stage we can say, if you value the lives of others so little your willing to consciously look at another human being and DECIDE to stab them with a knife knowing full well what the implications of such an action are and u KNOW they may die! Yet you still decide that for whatever sociopathic reasons that drive you to attempt to take someone’s life purposefully, we as a community should not cast this bastard out, treat him accordingly. Show him the pain he has

Yeah, because its totally all those rap and trance heads that are responsible for all the world’s problems…

Foolish comment to say the least. Let’s ban cars because some people speed.

Open air rap and trance concert? When was the last one as a matter of interest Brian? No trance acts performed at this event.

Jeez Brian, take it easy with the generalisations.

I was at the concert and I enjoyed the acts so much. I have been to concerts such as In my hometown of Belfast and all over the world and I’ve never seen anything like what I saw at this concert!! I’m ashamed to say I’m irish. Yes you are right, such scenes were not at the stone roses the previous night. However, what I think is that many of those attending are either drug gangs or thugs, police should have been watching for this, or kids who come in frm small towns and go mad on drinks and drugs. I didn’t see a gard the whole time I was in the actual concert grounds and I wasnt blocked or taking stuff!! I read in the paper knives and hammers taken off concert goers- were they arrested?, it doesn’t say!! I think you are totally right- Dublin cannot handle such an event. It’s a shame:(

It wasn’t trance music? Don’t be ridiculous, you cannot cancel future events such as these, that’s a complete disfavor to the majority that attended for the craic with friends & the music. Rather introduce better screening etc. consider all of this before you point the finger.

One thing I noticed that no one in the media picked up on. Last year SHM had a hit with Antidote which was done in collaboration with a duo called Knife Party. Just saying…..

I live in the area and the behaviour from the people on Saturday was the worst I seen all weekend. By one o’clock in the day the amount of drunk people running up and down the street and in front of cars was shocking – and that was way before any music had started. Don’t get me started on the litter. You do have to wonder what it says about some of the people who follow that type of music given that the crowds at the Stone Roses and the Snow Patrol/Florence and the machine gig where behaving like angels in comparison.

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Richard, hope that Knife Party gaff was just you being funny!! :) Knife Party consists of the boys in Pendulum, who I met when they played in the RDS a few years back…decent lads in fairness and a concert that had zero trouble. EDM has always struggled to shake off this image of bad behaviour associated with the genre. Its not a good reflection of the scene either…I go to many of these types of gigs and certainly wouldn’t see anything like that carry on at them.

The leafy green suburb brigade have done enough damage already thank you very much. :)

3 died from overdoses aswell?! well maybe Dublin shouldn’t be gettin the majority of events then. How boy we spread concerts across the whole country instead on centralizing everything to a Non central city

As someone from the Northside I find your comment completely ignorant and offensive. There are knackers everywhere. I hope you were taking the p*ss

@mark that comment you made is completely ridiculous, I experienced similar goings on in a Marley Park at FBS 2 years ago, and was innocently attacked plus there was stabbings that day also and multiple arrests, to blame the location is dumb,I wonder if people were I’d on way in seeing this was an over 18 gig