Dublin riot sees clashes with police after five hurt in stabbings

Vehicles have been set on fire and shops looted in Dublin after a knife attack that left a number of people, including three children, injured.

A five-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s were seriously hurt in the attack after 13:40 local time.

It happened on Parnell Square East in the city centre, outside the children's school Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire.

A man in his 40s who was also seriously injured is a person of interest, police said. read more