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Man arrested after Rathmines supermarket robbery

The man approached the male cashier, threatened him, and made off with a sum of money from the scene.

GARDAÍ HAVE ARRESTED a man who threatened a worker and stole money from the register of a Dublin supermarket.

At about 8.50pm yesterday evening a man entered a supermarket on the Upper Rathmines Road in Dublin 6.

The man approached the male cashier, threatened him, and made off with a sum of money from the scene.

The man made off with the money on foot. Nobody was injured in the incident.

Following the robbery, gardaí carried out searches in the local area and arrested a man in his 20s.

The man is currently detained under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at Terenure Garda Station.

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    Jul 16th 2017, 1:42 PM

    “The cashier made off with the money on foot”. You had ONE job!

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    Jul 16th 2017, 1:46 PM

    @Ken Smyth: typical. More sunday morning ‘journalism’!

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    Jul 16th 2017, 5:03 PM

    @Ken Smyth: Cormac was out on the town last night for a few beverages

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    Jul 16th 2017, 1:47 PM

    Quick, fix the typo where you said the cashier ran off with the money, before you get sued.

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    Jul 17th 2017, 5:11 PM

    Rathmines is gone downhill a little of late. There seem to be a lot of undesirables hanging around.

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