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Man stabbed on O'Donovan Rossa Bridge in Dublin city centre

Officers said that a 29-year-old man was injured at around 11.45pm.

GARDAÍ ARE INVESTIGATING after a man was stabbed on the on O’Donovan Rossa Bridge near Merchants Quay in Dublin city centre last night.

Officers said that a 29-year-old man was injured at around 11.45pm. It’s understood the man sustained a number of stab wounds.

He was taken by ambulance to St James’s Hospital where his condition is described as stable.

A garda spokesman said: “No arrests have been made to date and enquiries are ongoing. The scene is currently preserved to facilitate a forensic examination.

“Anyone with information is asked to contact Kevin Street Garda Station 01- 6669400 or the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111.”

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    Mute Jimjamjim
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    Sep 9th 2018, 1:23 PM

    A no go area, open drug dealing every day all day, gangs of four or five dealers with no fear of being arrested, like something from a film of some run down part of New York in the eighties except it’s modern day dublin bang smack in the middle of the city centre, merchants quay area is out of control but nobody seems to want to tackle it.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 1:26 PM

    Bring Rudy in, he will have the place cleaned up in no time

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    Sep 9th 2018, 2:14 PM

    @Jimjamjim:
    I’ve witnessed many a guard observe what goes on and turn a blind eye,literally.
    Mental stuff altogether.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 5:25 PM

    @Jimjamjim: the only place in the world I’ve ever been mugged. Two fellas, one with a knife and the other with syringe at my throat. Wouldn’t go near the area now at night.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 10:26 PM

    @Jimjamjim: hundreds arrested every week but the majority that’s sold is not illegal, it’s prescription stuff and that falls within the remit of the health board and not gardai

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    Sep 9th 2018, 10:27 PM

    @Kenneth Hayden: what’s the offense and can you prove it? Selling prescription drugs is not a criminal offense, it’s a licensing one as the to top cop in Dublin had repeatedly stated

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    Sep 9th 2018, 10:58 PM

    @Karl: is it not illegal to sell prescription drugs to people with no prescriptions? I’d say they don’t keep enough on them to get a conviction, but do the health board have an active role in policing this?

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    Sep 9th 2018, 10:58 PM

    @Karl: It’s more than prescption drugs they are selling,I’ve been offered heroin passing by more times than i can count, it’s not just the drugs, it’s the violence, the almost daily overdoses, it’s a free for all, on average once per month the guards will do a bust/arrest but I don’t blame the guards, it’s like trying to stop the tide, there’s not much they can do other than stand their all day, the dealers are clever too as they have spotters all around the bridge and quay, it’s location should be looked at where it goes is for a different debate, as another poster stated they actually had to move the bus stop as passengers were afraid to stand there and often caught in the middle of fights, I myself was almost clipped by a glass bottle in the face whilst minding my own business and walked into the middle of dealers attacking a poor unfortunate, like i said out of control someone will be murdered there I just hope it’s not an innocent passerby or tourist as it’s right next to a hostel.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 11:16 AM

    Not surprising Merchants quay is full of Junkies, drug dealers and thugs.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 11:19 AM

    @Bhiniáimin Ó Beith: and its expanding throughout the capital at a shocking rate.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 11:23 AM

    @Bhiniáimin Ó Beith: yeah being from and living in the inner city all my life I’d usually go against somebody brandishing it like that, but the quays are literally the only place in my years of living here that I’ve been started on and almost robbed, twice. Horrible place to go any day of the week.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 12:44 PM

    @Sean Murphy: brandishing?

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    Sep 9th 2018, 1:27 PM

    @Kev Barnes: it could possibly make sense, at a big stretch and in a figurative sense. Much like the assailant in the case in question denigrating his knife by using it in this way

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    Sep 9th 2018, 1:30 PM

    @WCS: or her knife

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    Sep 9th 2018, 3:26 PM

    @WCS: it could… Possibly… If he was referring to the production of the blade but he wasn’t..brandishing the area?? A BIG stretch to find sense in that indeed

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    Sep 9th 2018, 4:44 PM

    @Kev Barnes: sorry, autocorrect got me good! I meant to type tarnishing, rather than brandishing haha

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    Sep 9th 2018, 7:05 PM

    @Sean Murphy: haha gets us all…. Tarnishing makes more sense alright…. Agree with the point you’ve made anyway pal

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    Sep 9th 2018, 7:45 PM

    @Sean Murphy: Can you not just off autocorrect? It’s not mandatory.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 1:03 PM

    Sadly the most dangerous place in Dublin.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 2:31 PM

    Merchants quay is a gauntlet and the eponymously named charity is making it worse by facilitating the zombies 24/7. Always blood, vomit and used needles outside it. We’re worse for putting up with it and having our tax money used in such a way.

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    Sep 9th 2018, 4:43 PM

    @Ashley R: you mustn’t be outside in the morning’s so. They’ve had to move the bus stop 100 yards west because of the intimidation these ‘homeless’ junkies are inflicting on the people. I certainly don’t want these people protected from harm and I don’t want them out on the streets free to intimidate anyone unlucky enough to pass them by. Tens of millions of Euro are spent on this travesty, for what? To have the lowest of the low spend money we give them to bigger criminals? No way

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    Sep 9th 2018, 3:20 PM

    Dublin is a lovely auld city really

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    Sep 9th 2018, 1:06 PM

    Quick, call it a terror attack and blame the religion of peace. Seems to be the norm these days.

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