Quick policing response to ‘random’ knife attack in Dublin praised - Jim O’Callaghan said had gardai not arrived at the scene ‘extremely fast, this could have been a lot worse’.

A man in his 20s has been charged in connection with a suspected knife attack in north Dublin. Three men were injured in the incident in Stoneybatter area of the city on Sunday afternoon. The men, aged from their mid-20s to mid-40s, were attacked at a number of locations, including Oxmantown Road and Niall Street.

Three men were injured in what the minister called a “random” knife attack in Stoneybatter on Sunday afternoon