Amanda Cassidy: Violence on Dublin streets reduced a little girl's injuries to a 'meanwhile'

Headlines about last night’s Dublin riots now dominate, leaving the injured child reduced to a ‘meanwhile’

A bus and car on fire on O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre after violent scenes unfolded yesterday. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

She should have been snuggling up to watch the Late Late Toy show tonight with her family. Instead, she’s hooked up to hospital machines at a Dublin hospital after emergency surgery, her devastated family holding vigil by her bedside.

Another girl, aged six, continues to receive medical treatment for less serious injuries in CHI Crumlin. A five-year-old boy was discharged from hospital on Thursday evening, and a woman in her 30s remains in a serious condition in the Mater Hospital.