Parents fight relocation plan after stabbing incident outside Dublin City school

Candles and tributes left outside Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square in 2023 following the knife attack in which five people were injured, including three young children. Picture: Niall Carson/PA 

Parents in the school where a violent incident set off riots in Dublin in 2023 are refusing to allow their children be moved to another premises, saying it will compound any residual trauma from the incident.

The parents at Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire  have been told their children will be moving to another premises in October because a new-build school project has completely stalled. The board of management at the school say the current premises, outside which a man stabbed a child in November 2023, is no longer suitable to house the school.