Three suspected drug-related deaths and nine stabbing incidents were under investigation last night after a concert in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
A man who took ill at the concert on Saturday night later died at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown.
Another concert-goer from Co Laois died some hours after leaving the venue after falling ill in Ronanstown, west Dublin.
Gardaí are investigating if drugs were a factor in both deaths. The man who fell ill at the concert had not been identified last night.
Gardaí are trying to establish if a man in his 20s found dead in a pub close to his home in Co Meath in the early hours of yesterday morning from an apparent drugs overdose had been at the concert.
Weapons such as knives and hammers were seized from some of those trying to get into the outdoor venue in the park, where Swedish House Mafia were headlining a dance festival.
Of the nine people stabbed inside the venue, two remained in hospital last night. One had sustained stab wounds to his back, the other man has a punctured lung.
A 23-year-old suspect from the Clondalkin area of Dublin was arrested by an off-duty garda at the concert and is suspected of having carried out a number of the stabbings, though not all.
Source: Conor Lally, Irish Times, 09/07/12
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