Ireland Crime

Reports that Gardaí from Clondalkin assisted by national support units searched eight properties under warrant in DMR West on 16 December 2025, seizing items of evidential value. The investigation is led by a Senior Investigating Officer at an incident room in Clondalkin Garda Station. Gardaí reiterate their appeal for witnesses and video footage from the Oak Downs area between 9:30am and 10:20am on 25 November 2025.

Confirms the 16 December 2025 searches were carried out under warrant at eight properties in DMR West with items of evidential value seized; states Campion is in an induced coma; family says she was not the primary target and had fallen in with 'the wrong people'; specifies the time window as 9:30am–10:20am on 25 November 2025 in the Oak Downs area.

Adds that a man was also taken to hospital with injuries from the incident, specifies the witness appeal time window (9.30am–10.20am), confirms the searches were carried out on Tuesday 16 December 2025 under warrant, and notes the investigation is led from an incident room at Clondalkin Garda station.

Gardaí issued an update with the searches on 16 December 2025, the incident room location, the woman's condition, and a witness and footage appeal for Oak Downs between 9:30am and 10:20am. No arrests are mentioned.

Adds the woman's age (43), the extent of her burns (around 60 per cent of her body, with facial injuries), her transfer to a specialised burns unit at St James's Hospital, the partner's burn injuries, the incident room and CCTV, the suspected escape on an electric bicycle, and Garda views on motive and target. Describes the woman's condition as having stabilised somewhat.

Follow-up on the Oak Downs attack. Gives the woman's age as in her 40s and her condition as critical with burns to her face and body. Adds that her partner, also in his 40s, was burned, that the attack is believed to have been drug-related with him likely the primary target, and that residents described repeated intimidation at the house. No arrests are reported. The article does not name the woman, so the match is based on the location, date, and attack details.

Adds that the article describes the woman only as aged in her 40s, that a man in his 40s, believed to be her partner, suffered non-life threatening burns, that the attacker reportedly fled on an electric bicycle, that gardaí believe the partner was the likely primary target, and that a large amount of CCTV has been gathered. No arrests are reported.

Live blog adds that Gardaí treat the attack as targeted and linked to a local drugs gang, that the woman answered the door to her attackers according to sources, that her partner was injured trying to put out the flames, that a man was also hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries, that a Senior Investigating Officer has been appointed, and that the Justice Minister issued a statement.

Official Garda statement confirming the time (about 10:10am), the burn injuries to the woman, a man taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the appointment of a Senior Investigating Officer, the incident room at Clondalkin Garda Station, the preserved scene, and a dash-cam footage appeal for Oak Downs between 9:30am and 10:20am. The article names no one.

Official garda.ie appeal. Adds that the incident occurred at about 10:10am, that the scene is preserved for technical examination, that a Senior Investigating Officer has been appointed with an incident room at Clondalkin Garda Station, and requests dash-cam and video footage from the Oak Downs area between 9:30am and 10:20am. No names are given and no suspect is mentioned.