Out of control, anti-social behavior on the streets of Dublin has again drawn unwanted attention on the capital’s serious problem with anti-social behavior. The Daily Shift’s Denise O’Donoghue reports on a violent assault gone viral.
A YouTube video documenting a serious assault on a young man in Talbot Street, Dublin has gained thousands of views since it went online last night.
An encounter between two pairs of young males outside O’Shea’s hotel shocked Dublin pedestrians yesterday. Passersby quickly ran away from the scene as two men wearing vests and shorts knocked over and proceeded to kick and hit another man as he huddled on the ground before the victim’s friend, in a blue and navy hoodie, intervened. The friend, however, was also forced to the ground and attacked.
The other man, dressed in a red hoodie, managed to sit up before being kicked, seemingly in the face, and falling to the ground once again.
The two attackers left the scene while the man in the blue hoodie threw an open bag of crisps after them and followed them through the crowd of onlookers.
Reactions online range from shock and despair to satisfaction and joy.
Love seeing scumbags getting a beating. The lad who threw chips should be charged with littering! – YouTube user Ob1sdarkside.
Has anyone asked this lad to play for Irish rugby team, beautiful drop kick. – YouTube user irishnobbler69.
This has made my day. Lovely to see these scumbags get a hiding. Just shows how little intelligence they have to pick a fight with lads twice the size of them. Heroin isnt know [sic] to be great for the muscles after all. – YouTube user MrSweatyteeth.
Inner city dublin’s version of a classical ballet… – YouTube user tylercheribini.
Its a disgrace how many people looked at them and just walked away like your [sic] just as bad as the person doing the crime >:( – Youtube user amylou0397.
And why are people posting that the Talbot Street video is ‘funny’? What mentality have you to say that this kind of violence is funny? – Twitter user @MFCerTreasa.
OMFG just goes to prove how violent Dublin has become. – Twitter user @kateyo.
This is the latest in a series of violent attacks in Dublin, some of the most recent being the stabbing of nine men in the Phoenix Park and the deaths of three men following drug overdoses last Saturday night.
By Denise O’Donoghue
I’m a bit shocked at the number of people who just walked by too. Then again, what could they do to help, the guy who did try to help got beaten up too!
Strength in numbers and all that…if more people had intervened…
Well they more people that witness an event the more diluted the responsibility is.
This isn’t funny. It can be compared to a night out. Im at 18 year old student who has a decent group of friends tha are nice people and are into music and sports. We have to deal with the scumbags we meet on a night out. Especially in cavan i have been started on by the scumbags that think they on a the fucking town. I got hit last saturday night on the 7th of July and my friends aslo got assaulted and all we could do was defend ourselves and walk away. I am sick of this, there were no gards to be seen in the middle of cavan town after nightclub closing time and i hink this is a disgrace ! I am sick to the fucking skin of seeing this and the government needs to deal with this urgently !
Holy shit there is someone else called John Morris that was out in cavan the same night as me, haha thats hilarious :L
So sorry to hear that, it sounds terrible. I think there’s a problem all over Ireland but Dublin always seems to get the media’s attention (both good and bad) more than everywhere else. Hopefully after everything that’s happened just there over the last few days the government and Gardaí will have to change their behaviour to tackle the problems in society.
Guaranteed the 2 men in the hoodies attacked/provoked the other 2 men with homophobic abuse.
I feel some of you are mistaking these two men in beaters as individuals causing the violence. Instead, these guys are acting like vigalantes, attacking these anti social waste of taxpayer-money scumbags. Maybe next time when a couple of lads are walking down the road they’ll keep there mouths shut. A small step toward the rehabilitation of our primitive counterparts that reside in the dark alleys of our central Dublin.
Yeah that was my interpretation of the events. I know we have no evidence that the men being bamboozled were “scumbags” but I think that it is fairly self evident. The lads doing the kicking seem a tad bit more credible members of society than the other two… If I were to go on first impressions. And besides, I doubt the person recording just happened to be recording when this happened. My guess is the footage you dont see is the two “scumbags” starting something that the other two subsequently finished on camera.
This is why I stick to the live music band scene, not much can really happen and (no offense to all decent club-goers) it doesn’t attract the dicks that go to clubs specifically for fights. Its why any time I’m in a club at night, I can’t drink more than two bottles of beer and I’m constantly paranoid. Not what I’d call a good night out