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A 36-YEAR-OLD MAN has been arrested in connection with a robbery in Dublin city centre yesterday in which staff were threatened with a blade.
It happened at a hotel on Parnell Square in the north inner city at around 1.15pm.
A lone raider entered the hotel and threatened staff, before making off with a sum of cash.
He was arrested and detained a short time later, gardaí say. An amount of cash was also recovered.
The man’s been taken for questioning to Mountjoy Garda Station.
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10 years on top of robbery conviction for carrying a blade
If that were the case there wouldn’t be robberies with blades Or robberies at all.
Hope the journal, follow this up when some idiot judge lets him off or indeed when he’s released from the gards to commit more crimes before his trial.
Please stop automatically assuming that people are guilty before the facts have come out.
Guards can’t keep him longer then 24hrs. Up to a judge if he is remanded until trial.
I’m making the assumption that somebody threatened staff and robbed money. Am I assuming too much there?
Could you please do a follow up article Daragh, if and when this man is convicted and sentenced.
And what’s his sob story, I wonder?
10 years should do the job.
Thats about 450,000 to us tax payers. Put in a plane and drop him out to one of the islands. Much cheaper.
Drop him in shark invested waters
Too many sharks already invested in Ireland.
Hung him or shoot him… And use the remains to feed the crows. I am fed up of these scxxxags.
I wouldn’t fancy eating a steak if that moron was used to fatten up the cow
Throw away the key!!!!!
What hotel?
Was he the lone ranger?
Threatened with a blade? He must have been extremely desperate, if he couldn’t afford to attach it to a handle and convert it into a knife. Street slang sensationalist tabloid headline, if ever I heard one.
No Richard , he was the Loan Arranger but he forgot to fill in the forms!
tonto surely would have been good for a lend!
The Gardai caught him/ her bit will the justice system make their efforts fruitless..
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