'Resilient and determined' five-year-old stabbed in Parnell Square on road to recovery, according to mum

Candles and tributes outside Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square, after five people were injured, including three young children. File picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

The mother of a five-year-old girl who was left fighting for her life after a stabbing that sparked unprecedented riots across Dublin city centre has said she never wanted people to respond with violence because "hate only generates more hate”.

In her first interview since the attack at Parnell Square last November, the child’s mother said her precious daughter was in the “wrong place at the wrong time”.