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TWO PEOPLE HAVE been stabbed at the Hell Fire Club in south County Dublin.
Gardaí from Rathfarnham attended the scene of the incident, which took place at about 3.45pm this afternoon.
Two men have been brought to Tallaght Hospital with apparent stab wounds.
Their condition is as yet unknown.
No arrests have been made at this time.
It’s believed that the two men in question had been camping when they were attacked.
The Hell Fire Club, named for the club of the same name that was held at the peak of Montpelier Hill near Tallaght in the early 18th century, is a popular destination for hill walkers.
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It’s totally out of control, you can’t even go camping now without fear of being attacked, a complete change in mindset is needed here to tackle crime / assaults, jesus when I was young you could go up there and camp, or walk through the city centre, or just walk bloody home without fear of something happening, we are all exposed to this no matter where we go, time to do something meaningful about it
Can’t a guy just go out, try to raise Satan and have an ol’ dance around the flames anymore without all this violence?!?
Terrible incident, but I’m up there almost every weekend and Iv yet to see any junkies? What sort of self respecting junkie goes for mountain hikes?
You beat me to it. Go walking quite a lot around there, granted mostly at weekends, but have never seen junkies or seen any cars broken into. Granted it may be a different scene at night time but not sure why junkies would head out to the Dublin mountains to shoot up and rob when they can do this all day long in the city centre without fear of being lifted by the gardai.
Rational comment Deborah, why is it any incident with violence is automatically attributed to junkies? Idiots.
They were probably both pissed and one of them tried to pitch the wrong tent, and t’other acted all hard being drunk in all……who knows but Glik is spot on !
Locals tell me car break ins are common around there. So I don’t leave anything visible in my car
camping?? I wouldnt camp there unless I had security.
It’s a junkie haven up there .. feeling sorry for the two guys camping , they weren’t to know how unsafe it is. .
Junkies??? No public transport a long walk up hardly prime Junkie real estate
Junkie haven. Hope the two guys make a full recovery and the toe rags who did it are arrested
Have been up there at least a half dozen times in the past year and have never seen anyone dodgy. Not to say there never are, but calling it a “junkie haven” is sensationalist rubbish.
I wouldn’t park my car anywhere in the Dublin Mountains which is a shame because there are some lovely forest walks within a 10 minute drive of Dublin. Unfortunately all you see in the car parks is broken glass where the skum have broken into cars. Ireland has literally become bandit country..
Ticknock is a good example.
I go mountain biking and hiking in the mountains on a regular basis, so have been parking in those places (including Ticknock) on a weekly basis for about 3-4 years now and have never had my car broken into. Nor has anyone I know for that matter. Obviously it does happen, but don’t let something that’ll probably never happen to you put you off doing something you enjoy.
What are u on about I’ve lived beside it all my life and I have never seen junkies up there it’s very safe
We used to go up there as teenager’s for a few drinks and play cards etc.
And you dropped the ace of spades and saw the cloven hooves?
Used to go up there as a kid always looking forthwith pair of red.shoes that the devil was supposed to have left behind
My dad used to bring us there, I remember that precarious looking boulder. I was actually hoping to go with my own son on Sunday but this has convinced me otherwise.
Alll my life going up to the hellfire club when i was young and now with the family i have NEVER seen junckies up there. Junckies climbing/walking up that hell…..give us a break,you would need more than ambulances up there ……more like body bags for them
Confusing skobies with Junkies but everyone in Dublin is anJunkie to some people
Scarey.
Spent a night there about 30 years ago …two idiots came up the back road to it on motor bikes and pulled a knife on me.
I pulled out my (avid hiker at the time and always carried a knife when up in the mountains) knife which was a 6′ bowie knife …compared to their wee pen-knife. The silly ****s shat themselves and scarpered.
So this arsehole pulling a knife on people spending the night at the hell fire club is nothing new :-/
Call that a kniiife…crocodile Dundee
It was Brexiteers wot did..innit.
No body in their right mind would camp up there.
Ireland hasn’t been very safe for camping or hiking for long time…
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-1.20582
Those pitchforks can be lethal. Hope the victims make a full recovery.
It was the devil himself !
That place is not safe for Man, Woman or beast at anytime.
Thought it was in Rathfarnham?
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