Two arrests after road rage incident injures three and leaves cars and building 'smashed up'

Gardaí have arrested two people as part of the investigation into incidents of dangerous driving, criminal damage and assault that occurred on Main Street, Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare on Wednesday evening, 12th June 2024 at approximately 8.45pm.

A number of vehicles were damaged during the course of the incident as well as external damage to a building. Two males and one female were assaulted. Their injuries are understood to be non-life threatening.

Gardaí arrested a male (aged in his 20s) and a female juvenile (aged in her teens) today, Friday 14th June 2024. They are both detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984, at a Garda station in County Kildare.

Videos have circulated online of the couple smashing up a car, with one video showing the couple in the main square hitting a silver car with weapons which appears to have its back window smashed.

In footage posted online, an adult can be told telling a frightened child to "Close your eyes, close your eyes.” "I’m not looking, are you?” the scared juvenile replies.

A second video taken from a different angle shows a man approaching the silver car which appears to be stopped in front of a second car in the middle of the village.

A man then emerges from it, armed with an implement and appears to confront the approaching man along with the woman.

Investigations are ongoing.