Young man charged with offences during Dublin riots released on bail

Tom Tuite

A 19-year-old trainee electrician accused of criminal damage and arson of a Luas tram and rioting during a large-scale public order incident on Dublin's O'Connell Street last November has been released on bail.

Evan Moore was charged with three offences in connection with the unrest on November 23rd and appeared before Monika Leech at Dublin District Court on Wednesday.

He is the latest person accused of committing serious criminal acts during a series of incidents that broke out in reaction to the stabbing of three children at Parnell Square.

Detective Garda Aisling Gralton told Judge Leech that she arrested the teenager at 7.10am on Tuesday in relation to offences allegedly committed on November 23rd.

She said she brought him to Store Street station, where he "made no reply to each charge after caution and was handed true copies of each charge".

The offences are under the Criminal Damage and Public Order Acts.

Mr Moore, of Grangemore Road, Donaghmede, Dublin 13, did not address the court and is yet to indicate a plea.

Judge Leech granted bail with a numberer of conditions, to which Mr Moore, represented by solicitor Paddy McGarry, did not object.

Judge Leech noted that gardaí must obtain directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions, and ordered the teenager to appear in court again on July 30th.

She set his bond at €200 and warned him that the bail terms stated he must be contactable 24/7, sign on every Saturday at Raheny Garda station and "be of good behaviour and not come to adverse Garda attention".

Legal aid was granted after Mr McGarry informed the court his client was an apprentice electrician earning €400 a week.

Gardaí have already brought dozens of people before the courts on charges connected to the rioting in Dublin city centre last year, including for alleged criminal damage, burglary and public order offences.

The unrest in the city erupted after a number of children and a woman were injured in a stabbing incident at Parnell Square on the afternoon of November 23rd.

Riad Bouchaker (50, of no fixed abode, was charged on December 21st with the attempted murders of two girls and a boy, as well as assault and production of a 36-centimetre knife.

He remains in custody on remand pending trial.