Six men and two women were arrested today as gardaí mounted a series of dawn raids to crackdown on organised theft gangs in Dublin city centre.

Gardaí tonight arrested a man in connection with the stabbing of a man near a hotel in Croke Park.

GARDAÍ yesterday launched their third violent death investigation in a week after a young man stabbed in a hotel corridor died in hospital from his injuries.

The 21-year-old man who died after a stabbing incident at a Dublin Hotel in the early hours of the New Year has been named.