A man is being treated in hospital after suffering a serious facial injury in a stabbing incident on a street in Dublin.
The victim, understood to be Vincent Ryan (25), a brother of the late dissident republican Alan Ryan, was injured after being approached by a man with a knife on Parnell Square at about 4.10pm on Thursday.
A 24-year-old woman who was with him at the time was not injured.
Nobody was arrested in connection with the attack. Mr Ryan was taken to Temple Street Children’s Hospital for initial treatment before being moved to the Mater Hospital where his condition had been described as non-life threatening.
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the stabbing, or anyone who may have been in the vicinity of Parnell Square North between the 3.50pm and 4.10pm on Thursday, to contact Mountjoy station on (01) 666 8600, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any other station.
Separately, a statement purportedly issued by the Real IRA after the incident, said the organisation has “sworn to paint the streets red with the blood” of those attacked Vincent Ryan.
The organisation said it would “flush out” members of the “so called New IRA”.
“Republican groups up and down the country have lost total confidence in the NEW IRA because of there (sic) links to criminality and there (sic) utter Cowardly Failure to address to Murder of Republican Alan Ryan.”
Alan Ryan (32) from Grange Abbey Drive in Donaghmede, Dublin 13, was shot dead on September 3rd, 2012. He was a leading member of the Real IRA in Dublin and gardaí had considered him a significant crime figure.
He died when a gunman approached him from behind as he walked along Grange Lodge Avenue in Clongriffin with two friends. He was shot multiple times.