GARDAI in Newcastle West are investigating the circumstances surrounding a violent, inter-family brawl that broke out on the Main Street of Rathkeale leading to the arrest if two men at the scene.
At lunchtime last Thursday, one man is understood to have attacked another individual by using a key as a weapon and this sparked the introduction of more than a dozen people to the incident which is said to have escalated.
Gardai were despatched to the scene and four patrol cars were present with members of the force there to bring the situation under control and quell tensions.
Two men were arrested in the wake of the violent scenes but senior gardai said that no other weapons were used or produced during the course of the dispute. They were being questioned on suspicion of carrying out serious assaults.
Those arrested, two males, one in his 40s and the other in his 30s were questioned at Newcastle West garda Station and later separately released. Files are being constructed and a number of statements have been taken with a view that a completed file would be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions/
Further arrests are likely but gardai are adamant to conduct their investigations.
