Calls for calm amid ‘disgraceful scenes’ after children injured in knife attack
Police and politicians have called for calm amid warnings against misinformation as violence broke out in Dublin following a knife attack on a woman and three young children near a school.
Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee labelled the scenes in the city centre “intolerable”, and said a “thuggish and manipulative element must not be allowed to use an appalling tragedy to wreak havoc”.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said a “complete lunatic faction driven by far-right ideology” is behind disorder in the capital.
Violence broke out after three young children and a woman were attacked Parnell Square East in the north of the city centre on Thursday afternoon.
A five-year-old girl is undergoing emergency treatment for her injuries, Irish police have said.
The woman was seriously injured while the two other children, a five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl,
