Man Fit for Trial After Parnell Square Attacks

0:00I'm Cory with the story, and you've been listening to Europe News today, AI-powered European coverage. A Dublin court has ruled that a 51-year-old man accused of assaulting a care worker and trying to murder three children in Parnell Square is. Fit to stand trial and enter a plea. The charges stem from an incident last November, when Riyadh Bhushaka allegedly carried out the attacks in the city center. Experts from both sides agreed he has a neurocognitive disorder linked to brain surgery in 2021 and a traumatic brain injury the next year, but they split on whether it affects his ability to plead. The judge found the prosecution's psychiatrist more convincing based on reviews of Bhushaka's police interviews and said the defense didn't prove unfitness on the balance of probabilities. Accommodations will be made for his limitations during trial, and prosecutors are pushing for the earliest possible date to move things forward.