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Gun and silencer 'found in plastic bag at side of road' following foiled gangland hit in Dublin

A man has been arrested following the incident which happened in Inchicore at about 3pm this afternoon.

gun A still from video footage, which emerged this evening, which appears to show a firearm contained in a plastic shopping bag lying at the side of the Jamestown Road in Inchicore

Updated 9.21pm

GARDAÍ IN DUBLIN have intervened to prevent a shooting in Dublin.

One man was arrested on the Jamestown Road in Inchicore following an operation conducted by the Garda Special Crime Task Force west of the city centre at about 3pm.

A number of shots were fired by armed gardaí during the incident, however no injuries resulted.

One man, aged in his 20s, was arrested at the scene after a van was stopped.

A gun and silencer were later recovered from the area.

Video footage has emerged this evening which appears to show the firearm, with the silencer attached, contained in a plastic shopping bag lying at the side of the road.

A second vehicle believed to be involved in the incident fled the scene.

The scene has been preserved pending a Garda technical examination. The suspect, meanwhile, is being held at Ballyfermot Garda Station.

Less than two weeks ago, an associate of the Kinahan drugs cartel was arrested at Dublin Airport on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

Speaking to reporters last month, Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll said gardaí had saved lives in more than 30 circumstances since the Hutch-Kinahan gangland war in Dublin’s inner city erupted last year.

“The restructuring in the organisation has resulted in a situation where we are more often involved in intervening and preventing loss of life than investigating the loss of life,” he said.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to today’s incident, or anyone with information about it, to contact them.

With reporting by Cianan Brennan

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    Mute Garreth Byrne
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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:44 PM

    The gardai have been operating intensive surveillance in an attempt to catch armed criminals involved in the drug trade. Guns, expensive possessions and cash have been seized in a number of places. Successful actions ought to be praised by journalists and the general public.

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:54 PM

    @Garreth Byrne: in between faking breathalyser tests and fitting up whistleblowers, massaging facts before the PAC and then absolving the, from all of that if they prevent a few murders, which is their lawful responsibility.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:24 PM

    @Garreth Byrne: indeed…………..garda Byrne…….

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:30 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: away and take your head for a sh–e fiona

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:35 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: cheap shot. The gardai are putting their lives at risk every day.

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Sep 6th 2017, 8:01 PM

    @Clever Jake: change the record .it’s not going to happen. .

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    Sep 6th 2017, 8:04 PM

    @mark kelly:

    I agree

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    Sep 6th 2017, 8:08 PM

    @Garreth Byrne: I’m sure Paul Williams and Paul Reynolds will be all over that!

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    Sep 6th 2017, 9:39 PM

    @Ger Murphy: bang on. The Garda tackling these gangs have a tough job. Always the risk of being targeted. And they have had some success lately against these gangs

    Btw Fiona is Michael O’Lainn and Tony Daly – sad !!!’

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:07 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: we will see how you feel if you ever need one. Very easy to call out the few rather than celebrate the decent majority. Sure we’re irish that’s what we do.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:28 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: is it not every citizens responsibility to prevent murders…

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:42 PM

    @Clever Jake: because we can’t even get medicinal cannabis here yet and you keep banging on about harder drugs . It’s not going to happen in this country ..ever .

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:37 PM

    Sure nobody wants to hear about what the Gardaí do right. Tell us more about the plastic tubes so we can abuse them…

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:46 PM

    @scientia: interesting. They stop an intended murder and that gives them the privilege to fake over 500,000 breath tests.

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    Mute jason bourne
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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:59 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: murder trumps breath tests any day but don’t let that ruin your rant.
    Plus they are both very different areas.

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:12 PM

    @jason bourne: then one does not mitigate the other.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 8:06 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: have you never heard of credit where it’s due ?

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:09 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: not 500,000 breath tests.
    1,433,000 in total when you include the initial 933,000 fake breath tests.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:23 PM

    So we’re spending how much to save their lives, and then how much in free legal aid, for these pillars of society to live free? Legalise and remove the power from these thugs.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:24 PM

    @Mistawez: we don’t do police death squads in Ireland.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:42 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: IF WE LOCKED THEM UP THE FIRST TIME, THEY WOULDN’T BE BACK ON THE STREETS CAUSING PROBLEMS AND ANOTHER FEW HUNDRED CONVICTIONS!!! /caps

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:49 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: Also, I’d love to know where I suggested killing criminals. Remove the market from their control and give them meaningful sentences for violent crimes.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:51 PM

    @Mistawez: trial and conviction based on evidence is appropriate. If not drugs, it will be other criminality.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:57 PM

    @Mistawez: Legalise what? Class A drugs too? They’ll always find something else to sell.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:00 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: “If not drugs, it will be other criminality.” – GTFO, you’re wasting my time here so. Is one less type of crime not progress? There’s a huge infrastructure around drugs being sold, if you take out the core (remove their huge income and instead legalise and regulate the market, along with tax), the rest will cave in. It’s how ISIS etc are so powerful, they have money! Possibly more then the governments fighting them.. We’re letting them have that market by refusing to regulate.

    Just like we’re creating a new black market for cigarettes, by introducing huge artificial gaps in prices. We’re offering work to those who’ll take it (or need it).

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:03 PM

    @Shane Corry: No, we’re looking at controlling it via injection centres. Facing reality and dealing with the problem! Do you think the lady dispensing from a controlled and regulated injection centre, will try get your kids hooked?

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:05 PM

    @Mistawez: yes, create gateway opportunities to addict kids and adults to drugs legally.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:08 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: Gateways that are constantly monitored and tested for underage selling, proving their controlled supply (could be a cupboard in a back room in a secure environment) and being audited for taxes? Or some punk looking to make a few euro in his youth?

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:59 PM

    Well done to the Gardai

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    Sep 6th 2017, 9:59 PM

    Well done, Gardaí and thanks

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:05 PM

    Why can’t they catch them after they have killed some s (umbag

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:16 PM

    @MaryLoonyMcDonald: and what happens if an innocent victim is killed? There have been 8 murders of innocent people due to mistaken identity. Are they just collateral damage?

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:22 PM

    @MaryLoonyMcDonald: Your mentality is the same as the mobs who hung from the nearest tree those they thought guilty of stealing a horse in the early settlement days in America… every life is precious , even of people who have gone astray…

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:25 PM

    @Marie Thomas: your comment does you great credit. Apart from being right, you have real heart.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:40 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: no sympathy for drug dealers or hitmen

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:40 PM

    @MaryLoonyMcDonald: are you nuts? Let one of these morons shoot a firearm in the street? End up killing innocent people.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:41 PM

    @MaryLoonyMcDonald:

    More quality commentary from MaryLoo

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:44 PM

    @MaryLoonyMcDonald: but you are supporting them killing others.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:49 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: no…just killing each other

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:50 PM

    @MaryLoonyMcDonald: and killing innocent people in the process.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:52 PM

    @MaryLoonyMcDonald: it’s not the first time this account has made a terrible comment, it’s one of the worst accounts on here, should be banned.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 6:58 PM

    @Mr Phil Officer: I’m bad.. but not the worst by a long shot. All the SF/IRA murder apologists are way worse.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:00 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: do u comment on every single article. Have u nothing better to be doing?

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:07 PM

    @Paul Flood: I try to keep up with you whilst multitasking running the Taoiseach’s new Strategic Communications Unit.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:14 PM

    @Fiona deFreyne: choose life

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:28 PM

    @Paul Flood: it’s the other way around, if you think about it.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:39 PM

    @Paul Flood:

    To know she is commenting on every article would imply you are reading them all. Pots and kettles spring to mind

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    Sep 6th 2017, 9:53 PM

    @MaryLoonyMcDonald: The answer is that, apart from it being their sworn duty to protect all our citizens, these people don’t always kill those you described and have often killed innocent people in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 9:58 PM

    Gunne Stores

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    Sep 6th 2017, 11:37 PM

    How the tough guys melt when confronted by professionals,well done the coppers.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:29 PM

    Well done to the Gardai. There was shots fired but no injuries? I hope it was the tyres they where shooting as stray bullets and do serious damage to innocent bystanders

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:14 PM

    Meanwhile in lenster house, Senior politicians have set up a strategic communications some thing or other that serves absolutely no purpose what so ever.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:41 PM

    Why not escort them to the hit make sure no innocent people are shot, let the hit man go and do it over again till there all gone

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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:14 PM

    Choose life.

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    Mute Tim
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    Sep 6th 2017, 7:39 PM

    The monk knew what he was doing when he shot up the hotel

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:10 PM

    Feck me. Dunnes sell everything these days.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:53 PM

    We need an Irish version of Rodrigo Duterte.

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    Sep 6th 2017, 9:48 PM

    Dublin is a no go area

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    Sep 6th 2017, 10:47 PM

    @jfm: no it’s not

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    Sep 7th 2017, 1:48 AM

    @jfm: All of Dublin?

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    Sep 7th 2017, 6:53 AM

    The day after the breathalyser news. Gardai probably planted that gun to get themselves some positive coverage

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    Sep 6th 2017, 9:27 PM

    Keep plugging the story.

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