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Gardaí make three arrests after house party with over 200 teens spirals out of control

Gardaí make three arrests after house party with over 200 teens spirals out of control

Gardaí were forced to make arrests in Kildare after a teenager's house party spiralled out of control.

Over 200 young people turned up at the party uninvited in on Monday evening.

A 17-year-old girl posted on Snapchat that she was inviting friends to her house in Leixlip.

It was shared and went viral before gardaí were called - three teenagers were arrested for public order offences.

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The girl's father Kevin says he was away for the night and it just spiralled out of control:

"My daughter asked if I could have five or six friends over, and I said 'no problem at all'.

"A teenager being a teenager I thought she'd pull a sneaky one and invite 15 or 20 of her friends", he said.

"So she made a private story on Snapchat and put these people on it [with an] invite.

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"Someone then screenshotted it and... it went viral - people turned up from everywhere."

The arrested teens will be dealt with under the Juvenile Diversion Programme.

Image: Stock, Composite

 

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