For a city to be safe, it needs to feel safe. This is certainly not the case in Dublin these days, with the capital seeing an alarming escalation in violent, unprovoked assaults.
Last weekend’s vicious attack on a Ukrainian actor is just another stark reminder of how dangerous Dublin city centre has become at night. The images of the young man’s facial injuries were shocking and stomach-churning.
In the harrowing incident on Eden Quay, Oleksandr Hrekov (23), after being approached by a group and asked for a cigarette, was assaulted with a broken bottle and bitten.
