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Wednesday 17 August 2022
A post-mortem examination has been carried out.
It was almost four decades ago when some North American medical students arrived in Dolphin’s Barn rink and changed lives forever.
“Some people just put rubbish on the street because they know the council will come and take it away.”
Housing minister Simon Coveney has announced €25 million in funding for regeneration of the Dolphin House estate in south Dublin.
Two flats in the Dolphin’s Barn area were searched last night.
Nobody has been arrested in connection with the incident.
The man was taken to St James’ Hospital.
In the second of our two-part Dublin ambulance series, TheJournal.ie followed a crew as they dealt with a host of alcohol-related incidents around the city.
A 22-year-old man has been hospitalised but his injuries have been described as not life-threatening.
Authorities have broken up the Dolphin House community – but stalled regeneration of their homes and left them subsisting in horrible living conditions, write Eoin Lynch.
The incidents happened overnight in the Finglas and Dolphin’s Barn areas of Dublin. No arrests have yet been made.
THERE HAVE BEEN renewed calls for transport police after a man was left with serious facial injuries following an unprovoked homophobic assault on a Dublin Bus at the weekend.
Mark Sheehan (26) was returning from a night out with friends when he was headbutted by a man in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Tom O’Connor from the National Bus and Rail Union said investment in public transport services is “for naught” if people don’t feel safe using public transport.
Sinn Féin’s Justice spokesperson, Martin Kenny, said this “cowardly” attack while on a bus “once again underlines the need to establish a transport policing system”.
“If we are going to encourage more people to use our public transport links, we must ensure that everyone feels safe when doing so,” he said.
So today we’re asking: Should Ireland have a dedicated transport police?
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