17 Mar 2022

Dunedin councillor describes St Patrick's street scenes

From Checkpoint, 6:06 pm on 17 March 2022

Two Dunedin students have been taken to hospital after falling from a roof and a balcony during St Patrick's Day celebrations in the city's student quarter.

Some students have been drinking since the early hours of the morning.

They've set couches on fire and have been partying in the streets - in breach of Covid restrictions.

Earlier, Sergeant Aaron Burgess told us a second student was injured after falling backwards off an indoor balcony. Dunedin councillor Jules Radich is on the road - he told Checkpoint he's seeing a lot of students on Castle St but generally he is not seeing any bad behaviour.

The students he is seeing are "capable of walking," he says, and appear to be dispersing.