Inquiry launched after teenage boy dies after stabbing in house

A 17-year-old boy became the first homicide victim of the year after a fatal stabbing in broad daylight at a Dublin housing estate yesterday.

He was named locally as Reese Cullen. It is believed he was stabbed in a house where he was living at Kilclare Crescent in Jobstown, west Tallaght, at around 3pm. Gardaí are understood to be following a line of inquiry.

An ambulance brought him the short distance to Tallaght Hospital, but staff were unable to save him and he was pronounced dead.