Teens questioned over fatal stabbing in Dublin
Paul Curran McGuirk, aged 23, was knifed at Seagull House flats in lower Crumlin at 4pm on Saturday.
It is thought the stabbing took place in the stairwell of the flats and that the victim sought assistance in a nearby flat, before collapsing.
Detectives at Sundrive Road Garda Station arrested two 18-year-olds, a male and a female, on Saturday night.
They were detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 and were due to be either released or charged last night.
Seagull house, on Rutland Avenue and beside Crumlin Road, is located at a busy intersection and adjacent to Dolphin’s Barn Bridge and right beside a Dublin Fire Brigade station.
Mr Curran was taken to St James’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
The crime scene was sealed off pending a technical examination and gardaí began conducting door-to-door inquiries.
Mr Curran, from Captain’s Road in Crumlin, was a brother of David Curran, who is serving a life sentence for the double murder of two Polish men.
In a case that shocked the country, David Curran used a screwdriver to fatally stab Pawel Kalite, 28, and Marius Szwaijokos, 27, in the head outside their home on Benbulbin Road in neighbouring Drimnagh.
Curran, who lived on Lissadel Green in Drimnagh, was aged just 17 at the time.
There was an arson attack on the family home on Captain’s Road in September 2014, in which the mother, Paul Curran, and three other teenage siblings, managed to escape.
The father, Michael McGuirk, is serving a 10-year sentence for a tiger kidnapping in October 2009.
Gardaí appealed to people who could assist them to contact Sundrive Road Garda Station on 01-666 6600, The Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 or any Garda Station.
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