The point is sharp, but very fine, which makes it susceptible to chips and other damage after regular use. The 43-year-old Brazillian delivery driver told the Irish Mirror that he has been in Ireland for around one year, moving here after his restaurant burnt down, leaving his family in Brazil to earn money in Ireland to support them. The garda superintendent added: "We are dealing not just with the parents of the three children, but parents of the wider group that would have seen and potentially be traumatised as a result of what happened this afternoon.

The entire width of Abbey Street beside Supermacs was covered in flames, seemingly the burning remnants of a vehicle. The school started out as an all-Irish secondary school in the 1930s and, later, included a private all-Irish primary school which prepared boys aged 7-12 for entry to second level. There are many variations in the design and appearance of the blade shape, which allows you to find a knife that suits your specific needs. I was passing by in my motorcycle and I saw, first I thought it was a fight, with a man and a woman, later on, I found out she was a teacher. She was very very brave. I have to tell that. He paid tribute to gardai and all emergency workers who he described as having put themselves in harm’s way “to deal with the actions of a small minority in our society”.We're aware that the public are concerned about the activities that have happened today. The message to them is that we believe that this is a standalone incident, not necessarily connected to any wider issues that are ongoing in the country or in the city, and we need to identify the exact reasons for that happening. A boy, also aged five, and a girl aged six years, sustained less serious injuries and were brought to CHI, Crumlin, for treatment. The boy has since been discharged. Siobhán Kearney heard “screaming” and “spotted a guy with a stabbing motion across the road”, she said. We are drafting in resources to deal with that and that will be dealt with properly. I’ve given full direction to our resources here in respect of making arrests and bringing offenders to justice.

The incident happened at about 1.30pm on Thursday outside a school, Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire. Police said a five-year-old girl, a woman in her 30s and a man in his 50s sustained serious injuries. The girl was receiving emergency medical treatment. A five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl were treated for less severe injuries. The boy was discharged from hospital.

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The gardai are responding with force, they are arresting people and people will be sent to prison, she has said in a very strong response. There were clashes with riot police as some demonstrators let off flares and fireworks, while others grabbed chairs and stools from outside bars and restaurants. Photographs from the streets surrounding the school showed gutted buses and broken windows as street workers were left to clean up the fractured city. I thought it was strange, there was another girl involved who was pulling the girl and I saw the man grab a girl and when I saw the knife, I just acted in an instant. Supt Geraghty said: "The boy has since been discharged from CHI Crumlin. An Garda Síochána is providing support to the parents of all the children. The adult female in her 30s is being treated for serious injuries at the Mater Hospital."

Then the authorities came and there was a huge emergency response, I've never seen anything so horrific, to see that. I said 'what happened' - my concern was is there more? To see people screaming, and crying and confusion and devastation Horrific stuff. I was talking to the guards and said what happened to the best of my knowledge. Devastation. Unimaginable." I spotted a guy with a stabbing motion across the road and people screaming, so I look across the road and there was fellas there and they pulled the guy off the children. There was a good few kids. They were only just after finishing school. I’d say they were between the ages of four, five and six. No older.” Asked if she had seen how seriously injured the girl was she said she had not. “I just seen the blood.”

She said the gardai were responding with “full force, they are using every means available to them, every force available to them to bring these people to justice”. A five-year-old girl is receiving emergency treatment at Temple Street hospital after the stabbing incident. Ireland’s deputy premier Micheal Martin has condemned the rioting in Dublin, saying “this is not who we are as a people”.