Gardaí seize weapons and appeal for witnesses after Galway incident in which a car was driven into a crowd twice at speed
There is grave concern in the Garda and in Galway about the scenes on Sunday at Galway Shopping Centre on the Headford Rd, where golf clubs, iron bars and slash hooks were used as weapons.
Cllr Michael Crowe , the former city mayor in Galway, said more high-visibility policing was required in Galway city in the wake of the recent attacks, but he questioned whether frontline uniformed gardaí were the appropriate response. Cllr Crowe told The Irish Times he did not believe uniformed frontline gardaí were equipped or trained to deal with the level of violence, adding the manner in which the car was driven at the crowd twice was “shocking force”.
The Garda said a man and woman were being treated at University Hospital Galway for non-life threatening injuries arising from the “serious public order incident” involving “a large number” of people.“Gardaí have seized a number of weapons which are understood to have been used during the course of the incident. Two vehicles have also been seized for a technical examination,” the Garda said, also appealing for witnesses to the violence on Friday afternoon or Sunday evening to come forward.
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