5 People, Including 3 Children in Hospital After Dublin Stabbing

Published on November 23, 2023

DUBLIN—Irish police said five people, including three young children, had been taken to hospital on Thursday following what local media said was a stabbing in Dublin city centre on Thursday. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said police had detained a suspect. National broadcaster RTE quoted a witness on the scene as saying she saw a man in a “stabbing motion” from across the road and that when she ran closer, she said that two children had been stabbed as far as she could tell. Anthony Boyle, 31, an IT consultant who lives on the road and was passing by told Reuters, “I saw a child on the ground, a little girl.”...