Leanne Flynn

At that point, others also became involved, including a moped rider and another man.

He said he struck this man again while he was on the ground.

He was asked why he did that and he said he wanted to make sure that he didn't get back up

As I say, he was cross-examined and under cross-examination, he acknowledged that the accused had been armed with a knife and had every opportunity to kill or cause serious injury to the children.

Well, again, like Mr. Donoghue, she just happened to be at the scene by chance, an accidental witness who ended up intervening.

She had been attending the Stardust disaster inquest, which was taking place at the nearby Rotunda Hospital.

She explained to the court that her brother Liam died from injuries.

He suffered in that fire back in the 1980s.

And during a break in proceedings at the inquest, she stepped outside for a cigarette.

She was outside the Rotunda Hospital when she said she heard a scream from across the road.

Again, Parnell Square East would be very close to the Rotunda Hospital for those unfamiliar with that part of Dublin city centre.

She said her attention was drawn to a man holding a knife.

She explained that she works as a chef, so her eyes were instinctively following the weapon.

She told the court she then saw the man stab a child.

She reacted immediately.

She said she ran across the road toward the scene, shouting that a man was stabbing children, trying to get other people's attention, urging people to get the kids out of the way.

She told the jury that in her view, by the time she had arrived, two children had already been stabbed and the man then lunged

toward a third child.

That was her evidence.

And that particular part of her evidence was challenged under cross-examination.