Multiple Arrests Made After Spate Of Violent Incidents In Arklow

Friday, 11 July 2025 11:42

By Martin Osborne

A number of premises were searched in the Wexford/Wicklow division this morning in connection with these incidents and a quantity of suspected crack cocaine was seized.

Nine arrests have been made as part of investigations into a number of assaults in County Wicklow in recent weeks.

Two men have been charged in connection with the incidents in the Arklow area.

Yesterday, Gardaí responded to a report of an assault on Abbey Street at around 4.20pm.

A man in his 30s was taken to St Vincent's Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, and five men in their 20s 30s and 40s were arrested.

One of the men, aged in his 20s, has been charged to appear before a special sitting of Bray District Court this afternoon.

The four other men remain detained.

Two of them, aged in their 20s and 40s, have also been arrested as part of an investigation into an assault which occurred on the 7th of July, where a man in his 40s was seriously injured.

Gardaí are also investigating an assault on the of 28th of June, in which a man in his 50s was seriously injured.

Two men were arrested as part of this investigation and one man in his 30s appeared before Bray District Court on the 30th June

A number of premises were searched in the Wexford/Wicklow division this morning in connection with these incidents and a quantity of suspected crack cocaine was seized.

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