The Sinn Féin TD for Dublin South Central has criticised the slow and inadequate response by An Garda Síochána to reports of a large gathering of young people at an outdoor party in a flat complex in the inner city on Saturday night.
Video of the event has circulated online and shows a marquee with music playing at the Oliver Bond Flat Complex, which is in an area that has one of the highest Covid-19 infection rates in the country.
Aengus Ó Snodaigh said gardaí dispersed the crowd of youths after midnight but if "they had bothered turning up earlier" they would have observed all breaches of the public health guidelines by the group.