Nigerian man, Quam Babatunde st@bbed to d3ath in Dublin, Ireland

A 34-year-old Nigerian man identified as Quam Babatunde, was st@bbed to d3ath in Dublin, Ireland.

The incident happened in Dublin city center on South Anne Street around 3 am on Saturday, February 15th, 2025.

Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, said that vi0lence on the streets of Dublin is “not acceptable”.

Speaking on ”This Week” with Justin McCarthy on RTÉ, O’Callaghan said that he didn’t want to go into details on the man as he has not been publicly identified.

“I’m sure efforts are being made to try to inform his family of the catastrophic consequences that happened to him in the early hours of Saturday morning,” he said.

The victim said to be an asylum seeker, is understood to have been socializing earlier at a concert before the incident.

Gardaí were called to the incident in South Anne Street / Duke Lane Upper just after 3 am on Saturday. Babatunde was found there with serious !njuries and unresponsive.

He was treated at the scene by emergency services personnel and transferred to hospital where he was pronounced deceased a short time later.

The st@bbing was caused by two groups of people who had been out socializing at a venue before vi0lence broke out.

A second man is currently in the hospital being treated for non-life-thre@tening !njuries.

Purported footage of the incident has gone viral on social media.

O’Callaghan confirmed that he had seen the video,

“It is a shocking footage, and the individual carrying the knife and the other individuals there with him, involved in the vi0lence, need to know that Garda Síochána is making very good progress in terms of identifying them,” the Justice Minister said.

“I also want to put out a message that carrying knives and acts of vi0lence on the street is not acceptable in Ireland”