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Irish Mirror
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Alex Dunne & Darragh Berry

Gardai make five arrests as video shows gang surrounding bloodied man after Galway incident

Five men were arrested following a public order incident in Galway city on Friday night.

Footage shows gardai swarming a quiet road, shutting it down in the dead of night as a man was found in the area with a bloodied face .

There was a large garda presence on the Tuam Road beside Liosban Industrial Estate on Friday night between 7pm and 11pm.

It followed reports that a car had been rammed on the road by another vehicle.

A startling video from the night shows one man in what appears to be a very bad state with blood all over his face after being allegedly attacked, as Galway Beo reports.

The man can be seen being surrounded by a group who are visibly trying to get near him while he is clinging onto some gates.

In videos obtained by Galway Beo, a flashlight is held on the face of the bloodied man as several people, some topless, gather around him as he's being covered by two other men.

In another of the videos, the man covered in blood is seen being led away by another man while the person filming the incident says "who sent you? Put down your hand. You scummy b******. Show your face. Who are you doing it for?"

The bloodied man is then pushed around by the people behind the camera while another man tells them to leave him alone before a garda intervenes saying "woah, woah lads, what's going on?"

A garda spokeswoman said: "Gardaí attended a public order incident on the Tuam Road, Co. Galway in the early hours of Friday 11th February 2022.

"Five men were arrested during the course of this incident and detained at Garda Stations in Galway under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984. This investigation is ongoing."

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