Intelligence service assisting local detectives in establishing motive for garda stabbing

The Garda National Crime and Security Intelligence Service has been brought in to support investigators in establishing the motive
Intelligence service assisting local detectives in establishing motive for garda stabbing

A Garda was stabbed on Capel Street in Dublin on Tuesday. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Garda security services are assisting local detectives in trying to establish why a young man attacked two uniform gardaí and stabbed one of them in broad daylight in Dublin city centre.

The 23-year-old man arrested is an Irish citizen, of Pakistani heritage, with an address in Co Laois and possibly another in west Dublin.

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