Dozens of teens engaged in a vicious fight on Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin city centre yesterday evening, with one teenager left stabbed and requiring hospitalisation.
A video posted by RM.tv shows teenagers, male and female, engaged in a disturbing fight on the bridge, which forced traffic to a halt for a short time.
“Get him, f**king get him”, one young man is heard to roar and chaos spills out onto the scene.
JUST IN: There has been another stabbing tonight in Dublin City Centre as gangs of youth clash. At least one young man has being hospitalised.
This is happening on a daily basis now, where are the Gardai?#Dublin #stabbing #Gardai pic.twitter.com/P99LEWouFO
— RM.tv🇮🇪 (@RealMessageEire) March 22, 2021
Passers-by also caught this footage of teens chasing each other:
More footage. pic.twitter.com/Dq4jwqp7S8
— RM.tv🇮🇪 (@RealMessageEire) March 22, 2021
One teenagers was badly injured and is now in the Mater Hospital being treated for injuries. Despite Garda units from Store Street and Pearse Street stations responding to the fight, no arrests were made.
Gardai said they responded to “a public order incident involving a large number of youths”.
“The incident occurred on the Samuel Beckett Bridge, Dublin city centre this evening. A male has been taken to the Mater Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries. No arrests have been made. Inquiries are ongoing.”
Local Councillor Nial Ring described the fights as “running battles” between northside and southside teens.
ANOTHER STABBING IN OUR AREA
15 year old stabbed on Samuel Beckett bridge an hour ago following running battles between south side vs north side youths. We all hope he’s ok.— Nial Ring (@nialring) March 22, 2021
Locals say that the brawls have been going on regularly, with dozens of young people arranging to meet to fight and scattering when Gardaí arrive.
They say that knife crime is also a pressing issue in the city centre.
In January of this year, Gardái arrested a teenager after a woman was brutally stabbed the IFSC area as she walked home from work. The woman suffered stab wounds to her neck and elsewhere during the attempted mugging. The woman, 48-year-old Urantsetseg Tserendorj, a married mother of two from Mongolia who was living and working in Dublin as an office cleaner, tragically later died.