There have been calls for a crackdown on anti-social behaviour in the city after chaotic scenes in the suburbs last weekend.

Halloween night descended into chaos as a teenage girl was left with horrific injuries caused by a firework in Knocknacarra, while in Ballybane there was widespread destruction as gangs of youths lit illegal bonfires and launched projectiles at passing cars.

14-year-old Lauren McKeown was hospitalised after being struck in eye by a firework on Millars Lane on the evening of October 31 and remains without sight in one eye.

It’s understood that there were up to 300 young people gathered on the laneway for Halloween on Thursday last, many of them drinking – described by garda sources as “very difficult situation to police”.

In Ballybane, cars were damaged as eggs, stones and fireworks were thrown at them along the Castlepark Road and there were reports of up to 100 youths congregating at one point in the evening.

A garda spokesperson confirmed that they were investigating a report of criminal damage to a car on the Castlepark Road at around 6.45pm on October 31 – its back window having been smashed by a projectile, understood to have been a firework.

Pictured: A youth throwing a missile at a car, caught in this still from a video recorded in Ballybane at Halloween.