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Teenager hospitalised after 'vicious' attack in child detention centre

Three staff who tried to intervene were also injured.

Updated: 22.28

A TEENAGER WAS treated in hospital after he was attacked by another detainee at Oberstown child detention centre last night.

Three staff who tried to intervene were also injured in the incident and had to receive medical attention.

It’s understood that the attacker used a broken cup as a weapon.

All of those who required medical attention have now been released from hospital.

The incident has been referred to the gardaí and they are investigating the circumstances.

Campus Manager, Patrick Bergin, said the campus is in the process of organising support services for young people and staff and the situation will be kept under review.

It’s reported that the attacker is one of the teenagers who escaped in July and was recaptured earlier this month.

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson for Children Robert Troy described the incident as “extremely worrying”.

“The vicious assault that took place shows us that neither inmates nor the staff are safe at the facility as it currently stands.

“Representatives of workers at the centre have pointed out that alarms failed to trigger and there is serious concern amongst staff regarding the level of training that they have received to deal with incidents such as this.”

- with reporting by Órla Ryan

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    Mute anne-marie kelly
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    Sep 13th 2014, 4:27 PM

    Hopefully, some day, the remains of Ireland’s “Missing Women” might be stumbled upon too. Their poor families REALLY deserve closure also.

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    Mute Truthy Truth
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    Sep 13th 2014, 6:57 PM

    I think that there’s something not quite right about the investigations in to the murder of those women. Time to invite in the FBI. Too many people know each other in this country

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    Sep 13th 2014, 8:09 PM

    Truthy, the FBI don’t have jurisdiction in Ireland. Your not very Truthy are you!

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    Mute Tony Canning
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    Sep 13th 2014, 8:33 PM

    Thus INVITE

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    Mute DiarmuidMurphy
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    Sep 13th 2014, 8:35 PM

    The FBI have actually consulted on the cases of some of the missing women.

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    Mute Tom Red
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:28 PM

    A heart broken family will get their son back and will be able to give him a proper burial……

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    Mute Oil Be Honest
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:19 PM

    At the very least it might be closure for some family… Crazy that it was just down to chance!

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    Mute James Darby
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    Sep 13th 2014, 4:04 PM

    I don’t think that it was just down to chance. A new search of Oristown bog has been under way for the last few weeks.

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    Mute Mick Rooney
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:58 PM

    Some clarity here. This Garda investigation team were not looking for a stolen car. They are part of a Garda team tasked with finding the IRA disappeared. Recent intelligence information provided to them led to the bog site in Meath. The body was found close to the car. Someone owns this land or has authority over it. Quite why the shell of a burnt out car supposedly sat here for 11 years without someone reporting it, identifying the vechicle and removing it, I have no idea. Had that happened, it might have led to closure for one family a lot sooner.

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    Mute thenightmancometh
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    Sep 13th 2014, 5:17 PM

    Its not that unusual for people to abandon banjaxed cars in bogs. A lot of the bogs around that area are owned by the Headfort estate and so there may not be anyone monitoring it that closely.

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    Mute Cosmo Kramer
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    Sep 13th 2014, 5:41 PM

    Drive around the Dublin Mountains, plenty of burnt out cars just rotting away for years and years in fields and bogs..

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    Mute Rildo Olor
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    Sep 13th 2014, 11:47 PM

    The car was stolen not banjaxed

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    Mute thenightmancometh
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    Sep 14th 2014, 12:32 AM

    Rildo…yeah, the point is that you don’t look at a shell of a car in a bog and say to yourself “That must be a stolen car, I better call the gardai”. RIP and condolences to the family.

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    Mute Rildo Olor
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    Sep 14th 2014, 1:30 AM

    Well it’s that type of bumpkin “sure it’s only an oul car” shit that slows investigation s down

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    Mute gerry campbell
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    Sep 14th 2014, 10:01 AM

    Mick and all your green thumbers there, ye should get out of the city and actually visit a bog, you would learn loads , including how easily a car could rest there for many decades .

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    Mute thenightmancometh
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    Sep 14th 2014, 10:51 AM

    Whatever you say, Officer Rildo!

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    Mute Laura Grimes
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    Sep 13th 2014, 6:25 PM

    Please hold the jokes, Gerry was a much loved father, son, brother, uncle and friend , his family have been through a hell that no one should ever go through. Rest in Peace Gerry

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    Mute Steven Hillert
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:49 PM

    You shower of C,,,s show some respect.

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    Mute danny fitz
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:19 PM

    Must be the first bog body to be found in a car

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    Mute Adrienne Lyons
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    Sep 13th 2014, 6:58 PM

    RIP Gerry. Glad your family have closure. Your poor mam died of a broken heart but your united with her now

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    Mute Tom Colgan
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:19 PM

    It took 11 years to find a stolen car? Ffs

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    Mute Forty Coats
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:28 PM

    Cutbacks.

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    Mute Tom Colgan
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:28 PM

    Lol

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    Mute Miriam
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:31 PM

    Yeh the cops should do a nationwide excavation of every bog in the land each time a car is reported stolen.

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    Mute Maggie
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    Sep 13th 2014, 3:34 PM

    Their full of soil

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    Mute Banga Ncube
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    Sep 13th 2014, 5:28 PM

    It is quite sick that some posters regard this find as funny. Such finds will always evoke memories of other bodies scattered throughout this island, memories of fellow human beings murdered by ‘republican’ and ‘loyalist’ gangs.

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    Mute Forty Coats
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    Sep 13th 2014, 5:55 PM

    Fellow human beings.. like eh Palestinians?

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    Mute Matthew Holmes
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    Sep 13th 2014, 4:11 PM

    For what its worth you can tell if a decomposed body or skeleton is male or female by looking at the Jaw. If there’s an indent in the bit of the Jawbone that meets the skull that means it belongs to a female skeleton, if it’s not indented its a male skeleton.

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    Mute billy dunne
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    Sep 13th 2014, 8:00 PM

    Someone’s been killed what’s with the jokes FFS show some respect

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    Mute Jo Lynch Heavey
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    Sep 13th 2014, 8:15 PM

    Respect please people. One family has closure tonight, but there are so many more still waiting. This is not the body that they had hoped to find, but lets hope that someone will give them that one bit of information that will give the meGraw family closure. Thoughts with both families tonight.

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    Mute Donal O Neil
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    Sep 13th 2014, 4:16 PM

    Likely car was burnt and the car and body were buried in bog . Means the people,who did it had access to an excavator which may have been at site already legitimately. If it had been on the surface it would have been noticed a long time ago as ireland is a small place .

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    Mute John Mulligan
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    Sep 13th 2014, 4:27 PM

    Sure it helped unite ireland anyway.

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    Mute Seán Ó Briain
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    Sep 13th 2014, 6:26 PM

    The car is missing since 2003. He is missing since 2011. I doubt it.

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    Mute Karen O'Hanlon Cohrt
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    Sep 13th 2014, 5:29 PM

    RTE news are reporting this as the remains of Gerard Daly, missing since 2011.

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    Mute PAUL NICHOLSON
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    Sep 13th 2014, 4:43 PM

    Gardai treating the death as suspicious.

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    Mute Gracie
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    Sep 13th 2014, 9:15 PM

    Looking for a person wearing a black balaclava, navy track suit bottoms, black hoodie and white runners

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    Mute John Do
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    Sep 13th 2014, 9:04 PM

    Gardai

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    Mute KentuckyWindage
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    Sep 14th 2014, 8:29 AM

    Was he ‘known to the Gardai’ I wonder?

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