Month: August 2025
Spate of physical incidents includes attack on a six-year-old girl at a County Waterford housing estate
In the west Dublin suburb of Tallaght, a group of teenagers accosted, beat and partially stripped an Indian man, who was then filmed staggering and bleeding. Days later a gang attacked another Indian man in the nearby suburb of Clondalkin, hitting him in the face, chest, back and legs, leaving him with a fracture, gashes and multiple bruises.
Days later again, two male passengers turned on an Indian taxi driver in the north Dublin suburb of Ballymun, striking him across the face with a bottle and shouting: “Go back to your country.”
‘These moments are hard to watch … in some cases there is just centimetres or milliseconds from the result being so much worse,’ transport minister says
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A man is hauled off the tracks by his backpack at the last second. A hatchback appears out of nowhere. A mobility scooter zooms in front of a tram without slowing down. A food delivery rider is almost sideswiped by an 85-tonne behemoth.
Officials have released video footage of near misses in New South Wales and urged pedestrians, riders and drivers to be more careful near the light rail network during Rail Safety Week.
