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A WOMAN HAS died and a man has been arrested after a siege in Cavan last night.
The man barricaded himself in The Square Bar in the small town of Bailieborough yesterday, shortly after a woman was found shot dead in the area.
After a tense stand-off involving gardaí which lasted for several hours, the 56-year-old man was arrested at around 3am.
He is currently in custody at Bailieborough Garda Station under the provisions of Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.
The scene at the pub is preserved for a technical examination.
The body of a 56-year-old woman was discovered at a house in Drumbannon, Bailieboro, Co Cavan yesterday evening. The scene is currently preserved and the services of the State Pathologist and Garda Technical Bureau have been requested.
Town shut down
A large part of the town was shut down and all roads leading into Bailieborough were closed as the dramatic events unfolded. Local residents were ordered to stay in their homes and both the Garda Armed Response Unit and an Army bomb disposal team were involved.
Local priest Oliver O’Reilly told Morning Ireland that he had spent time with the deceased woman’s family, and that he knew her “very well”. He said her four adult children were on their way back from Australia to Bailieborough and were “totally devastated” by the news.
Fr O’Reilly said that he felt “a great sense of shock and dismay” at what occurred, and that the incident was “not normal” in Bailieborough.
The man is believed to have walked into The Square Bar with a gun earlier this evening and ordered the people inside it to leave. At one stage it is believed that he held the gun to a Garda’s head.
The man locked himself in and retreated to the basement of the pub on his own.
A special unit team of the gardaí used CCTV from the pub to monitor the man’s actions as negotiations took place.
It is believed there was a threat of the man having an explosive device with him while in the pub.
Gardaí requested a media blackout throughout the incident, asking media organisations to refrain from covering what was happening in Bailieborough.
Gardai are appealing for witnesses that may have been in the Drumbannon housing estate yesterday and may have seen anything unusual or suspicious or to anyone who can assist with this investigation to contact the incident room at Bailieborough Garda Station 042-9694570, The Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 or any Garda Station.
- Additional reporting Aoife Barry
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some craic carrying a big bag of cash across O’Connell Street on a regular basis nowadays..
@kjholt: Same goes no matter where you are. Times are different all over the place.
@Gary: but O’Connell St. is especially dodgy..
I met Arthur when he took a photo of me as an art student with my boyfriend as we crossed O’Connell bridge in 79, he struck me as a man who just loved doing what he did, I still come across that photo every now and again it has maybe just a little too much denim and patches, but it always makes me smile.
Never forget where ye came from.
@Paul Mc Manus: where do you come from Paul
A fascinating article. I remember this chap on OConnell bridge and a line of people looking to be photographed. There are a lot of good memories in those photos before social media ruined the innocents and now you get what people had for dinner and nonsensical twottle.
A picture paints a thousand words
Your one on her way to her date looks very stylish. love black and white photographs.
I have a picture taken by Arthur of my grandparents and grand aunt taken in Oct 1944. Treasured piece of family history.
Nice gift for Christmas
This is a fascinating project on the history of a photographer taking pictures of ordinary people going about their daily business, it’s lovely looking at old pictures like this I always think to myself we are just one generation passing through this journey of life, every one has a story to tell in these pictures
A nice little nostalgia piece.
I have two photos taken by him on O Connell St in around 1970 which I cherish.
Status quo look well in pic 2
@Sean Lynch: Jack Nicholson easy rider on the right
@Sean Lynch: Well said
I have a lovely photo taken by him on O’Connell Bridge of me and my future husband.
He took my grandparents’ photo, my parents’ and mine in his time. I remember he took mine outside Burger King on O’Connell Street, which was less glamorous than the O’Connell bridge photos of my parents and grandparents. Still, we had an interesting conversation about Mike Tyson in particular, and boxing in general. What a fascinating man he was. I must dig up my photo.
Pretty sure he captured a shot of George Harrison as a child with his Mam crossing the bridge too!
Can’t we Photoshop in a few black dudes, you know, for ‘diversity’?
A true legend of Dublin with amazing black & white photographs catching life as it was in the city. Problem is that todays family photographs taken on digital cameras and mobile phones will probably never be transferred into print for future generations to see.
Interesting to see the old single-decker bus with the driver in a compartment up front, and Nelson’s Pillar.
those Dufficy women had walked an awful long way from Roscoomon before he snapped them
@Christy Morrison: the walk wasn’t too bad, it’s pushing the prams from Tulsk that was tough going.
Great character remember him through the 60s and 70s when I lived in Dublin. O actually got a photo taken with my date in 1974
He used to trip the flash first to get your attention and think you’d had your photo taken. Then once he got you to stop and pay the fee he’d take it again. A character, of his time.
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