Leanne Flynn

Her lung had collapsed.

Her diaphragm had been severed, which collapsed the other lung, she said.

Her spleen was removed, part of her stomach also injured.

She said that she was put into an induced coma.

She underwent two emergency surgeries.

And since then, she said she hasn't been able to go back to work.

Yeah, that was something that she was asked about and something that she said during her cross-examination.

She was questioned about what exactly she saw and when, and part of that cross-examination related to who Mr Boushekar appeared to be targeting that afternoon.

In her Garda statement, and this would have been made at the time, she said she didn't believe he intended to harm her personally.

In her view, the children were his focus.

And she said he appeared, as you say, hell-bent on getting back to them after she pulled him away.

She accepted that once he broke free of her, there was a period of maybe half a minute or so she wasn't entirely sure about the precise duration before he was restrained by those other members of the public, during which time he stood at the knife and remained capable of causing harm.

Due to her focus on getting those children to safety, she accepted, again under cross-examination, that she didn't see everything that happened.

And when it was put to her by Mr Bouchaker's defence barrister, that when she saw him waving or slashing the knife, as she described it, near the other children...

She couldn't say definitely whether injuries to two others were intentional or accidental.

That said, in her opinion yesterday, she maintained that he did intend to harm them because he had gone back toward the children swinging the knife, as she described it.

But she accepted, as she couldn't say precisely how those later injuries occurred.

Yeah, this was Caio Benicio, a Brazilian man who had only moved to Ireland the previous year.

He said that he was on his motorbike, he heard some screaming, people running on Parnell Square East.

He said he saw a big man fighting with a woman, he saw a child.