Detectives have appealed for two men involved in the death of a man on St Patrick’s night in Dublin to give themselves up.
Joseph Connolly (48) suffered head injuries after being assaulted during a row with the pair outside a pharmacy on Ballymun Road in north Dublin yesterday at 9pm.
Garda superintendent John Gilligan said the incident happened quickly and he urged the attackers to hand themselves in.
“We know there are people out there who know what happened,” he said.
“The people that did it, we would ask them to come forward or be brought forward and we’ll talk to them, discreetly, and we’ll sort this out.”
Mr Connolly, who was single and is understood to have lived alone in the Poppintree area, was conscious when an ambulance arrived to treat him.
He was taken to the Mater Hospital but later transferred to Beaumont where his condition deteriorated. He died this afternoon.
Local parish priest Fr Gerry Corcoran, who knew the dead man, offered his sympathies to his family.
“He was a very inoffensive man from a nice family,” Fr Corcoran said. “Our prayers are with his family.” Anyone with information is asked to contact gardaí at Ballymun.
Meanwhile, a 19-year-old woman has been arrested in the North in connection with the stabbing of a 21-year-old man in the Argyle Street area of Derry at about 7.45pm. The woman was arrested close to the scene of the incident.
Elsewhere, eight people were arrested in the Holylands area of Belfast yesterday for a number of offences including disorderly behaviour, criminal damage and assault.
The area, which is home to thousands of students, has previously witnessed large-scale disturbances on St Patrick's Day.
Nineteen people were arrested in the area on St Patrick's Day in 2009 and the cost of policing the student violence totalled some £35,000