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TWO BURGLARY GANGS targeting affluent areas of south Dublin have been forced to widen the areas from which they steal after a serious garda crackdown, TheJournal.ie has learned.
In recent weeks, gardaí based in Dun Laoghaire and Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) East have made significant ground against the organised crime group following intelligence supplied to its burglary units.
A new drugs unit established in DMR East in September 2017 has also helped increase the amount of intelligence gathering by officers in the district.
The increased pressure was most visible last Wednesday afternoon. A member of the public spotted two men attempting to break into a property in the Crosthwaite Park area of Dun Laoghaire and notified police. Within 45 seconds of the call going in, three units of gardaí had arrived at the scene.
The two men had ran up the Glenageary hill towards Sallynoggin when they were stopped by police.
Despite the phone call, gardaí were unable to make any arrests as the men had no stolen goods on their person. However, the two men were very well-known to officers in the burglary units.
Informed sources have told TheJournal.ie that the criminals are aware of the added pressure on them and that officers expect the gangs to move to areas they may not have targeted previously.
Previously burgled areas include: Dun Laoghaire, Monkstown, Sallynoggin, Cabinteely, Shankill, Killiney, Dalkey, Blackrock, Stillorgan and Clonskeagh.
Latest garda figures have shown that burglary rates nationwide have reduced dramatically in the last two months of the year thanks to Operation Thor – a nationwide crackdown on thefts from the home.
However, the two Dun Laoghaire gangs continue to burgle.
A number of pubs in the areas have also been burgled in recent months. It is thought that these robberies were ordered by a senior criminal figure who has ties to remnants of the IRA which are still active in the Dun Laoghaire area.
On Friday, an Operation Thor operation targeting Wicklow criminals resulted in:
Late last year, we reported that a garda operation designed to provide high visibility policing which was used, in part, to target two burglary gangs in south Dublin was brought to an end by Garda management – much to the frustration of officers in the district.
Operation Imeacht, which had been running from Dun Laoghaire Garda Station, was stopped in December.
The local operation meant that a number of extra patrols were sanctioned to help fight the number of burglaries and public order incidents in the south Dublin suburb.
Two gangs, one based in Monkstown and the other in Dun Laoghaire itself, were the main targets.
Detectives in the area had pinpointed that these repeat offenders were most likely behind an increase in thefts from surrounding areas like Killiney and Cabinteely.
When asked if An Garda Síochána believed that it had adequate resources in place to tackle burglary in south Dublin, a garda spokesman said:
“Operation Thor is still ongoing within the DMR East and across all Garda Divisions. Along with district detective units, a Burglary Response Unit continues to operate in the division.
“A local competition is currently underway to increase numbers assigned to this unit. Additionally, a newly formed divisional drugs unit was established in the DMR East in September 2017.
In relation to Operation Imeacht, this was a separate and local operation developed to provide additional ‘Hi-Visibility Policing’ at targeted locations with high levels of footfall and public order hotspots and had reached the end of its cycle. All operations conducted in the DMR East are continuously reviewed by local Garda management to ensure their effectiveness.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it and I’m a die hard fan of the first film. I don’t understand why people can’t be left to enjoy things without being torn apart
@Isla Carabine: I’m looking forward to it…Paul Mescal is a fine bit if stuff….drool
@J B: I’m female and married….so you’re silly attempt at an insult fell flat.
@Clare Power: FFS. You serious?
@Clare Power: Well played! The knuckle draggers have been triggered ‘bigly’!
@J B: just Clare thanks….
@Gerry Lamont: Why…I think he’s fabulous…
@J B: This makes no sense. We all know what Tired Jim’s thoughts on this would be! If I’d included ‘woke’, ‘tears, ‘ cry harder’ with a general air of complete disgust that the world isn’t the same as it was in 1951, then maybe you’d be onto something!
@Clare Power: he’s a beautiful tank of a man
@Clare Power: You go girl! F3ck the begrudgers
@Clare Power:
Classy wife on here drooling over an actor who’s probably a bit too young for her! My condolences Mr Power
@Brian Barry: and you wouldn’t drool at some leggy blonde…give me a break…
@Clare Power:
Oh I’ve drooled many a time Clare over a leggy blonde but i don’t announce it to the world. Out of respect for your husband i suggest you keep your drooling to yourself like most normal people do.
@Brian Barry: no, I’ll do what I choose thanks…
@Brian Barry: Welcome to 2024 where most of us have accepted that marriage doesn’t turn people into automaton’s and shock horror women appreciate an aesthetically pleasing human too!
@SerotoninWars: you couldn’t make this stuff up honestly..
@Clare Power: If there’s one thing that social media and comment sections have given us, it’s an insight into how many people have let the modern world whoosh on by! Have these people actually spoken to any of the women in their lives?!
@SerotoninWars: I would say the women in their lives are probably not allowed an opinion.
@Clare Power: A truly awful image. Being expected to sublimate yourself to these Einstein’s. Eugh! Probably get called woke for mentioning anything to do with equality.
@Brian Barry: Clare is married not blind.
@Clare Power:
I choose a different variant of Woman.
@SerotoninWars:
Most of us as far as i can tell don’t disrespect our Partners /husbands /Wives by stating how they drool over the opposite Sex online. Leave that to the teenagers
@Clare Power:
Women in my life have class. Opinions too!!
@Brian Barry: Get over yourself. My hubby has a crush on an American actress… Does it affect our marriage? No, because we’re adults in an adult relationship….you need to teleport back to the 1950s.
@Clare Power: Maybe he just has more class than you by refraining from posting his drooling preferences about said American actress Online.! Not all women hold to your standards Clare.
@Brian Barry: How do you know he refrains from posting, and basically, at the end of the day what I post harms nobody certainly not my marriage I can assure you…maybe concentrate on your own postings.
@Brian Barry: Jesus Brian I pity your other half. It’s ok to say someone is attractive.. you’re not looking to cheat or deceive anyone. Maybe it was a religious upbringing that did a number on you. Try being fun instead
Don’t waste your time & money going to watch this. It’s up there as one of the worst films ever.
@David Glynn: Well, reviews say di
fferent. Maybe it’s not your cup of tea. Others may have a different experience.
@David Glynn: mightn’t go that far David but 100% agree it’s a binner, the CGI is good but the story & script……very ‘m’eh’
@Annette: it’s a terrible film Annette. Went with 8 male friends, none of us were impressed. This genre is usually my cup of tea.
@N J: quite simply, it most DEFINITELY isn’t a good movie worth the ticket price. There are certain movies that are just”stand alone” masterpieces ( like Thelma & Louise, the Shawshank Redemption for example) that won’t benefit from ’round 2′…..this very much fits into this category
@N J: Well, based on your hcomments, it seems like my “Mysoginist Saturday Night Mansplained Gladiator 2” will be spoiled.
@Annette: morning Annette, I just had a quick perusal of available reviews…… all in all, fairly lacklustre & tepid
@Frank/Kevvy: Thanks for your invaluable review of the reviews.
It’s not great and his bland accent was terrible. It won’t be winning any Oscar’s that’s for sure
@Brendan O’Brien: cheers brenny, I really enjoyed your autobiography though —- “SPLIT”!!!
@Brendan O’Brien: have you seen it? Have you a problem giving their opinion on the movie? Baby!
@damien leen: his point is that it is the same person using 2 different accounts that is commenting
@Kevin Kerr: oh right, id say that brenny has more accounts on her then a south American drug cartel has in a bank in Cayman Islands,lol
@Kevvy kerrr: Yes, you would say that, but it would be a lie. Unlike you, I have only one account.
@David Glynn: you review for the Moscow Times?
@J Ven: So a man having an opinion about a movie is now labelled misogynistic and mansplaining. Thanks, got it.
@David Glynn: Obviously played second fiddle to Mescal when you were in school….
Is Paul not disturbed by the axing of Palestinian Egyptian actor Maya Calamawy from the he film? Hollywood is fairly obviously on the side of genocide. When does that realisation dawn in the minds of actors?
@helen mary fitzsimons: Slaughter begets slaughter. Whoever starts the slaughter needs to be held responsible.
@thomas molloy: so you’re saying this started on October 7th? And that 1 Isreali life is worth 100 Arab lives?
@thomas molloy: So the Israelis, agree totally.
@thomas molloy: then we have to go back to the beginning of time… However for this, perhaps look at the history of the middle east..
@helen mary fitzsimons: Did you forget this is Ireland and not Palestine? If you want to be a hero be our guest and go there. But this is a Hollywood movie and he’s an Irish actress. We aren’t Palestinian. Talk the talk but you don’t walk the walk on your high horse hah! We have OUR OWN PROBLEMS. Ireland First.
Both the movie and Mescal are crap. Don’t know why there is such a fuss over Mescal. Limited acting range, annoying personality and zero charisma. Too ‘woke’ also.
@Andrew Kenny: Don’t forget to add that he is Irish. Can’t be having Irish success. Better not get you started on Saoirse Ronan.
@Sal Paradise: Better not Sal. Lol.
@Andrew Kenny: can you explain how or why you think he is too ‘woke’?
@Dermot Blaine: He doesn’t turn up with pitchforks outside refugee centres? He said something that might be interpreted as ‘kind’ at some point?! It could be anything with the all-encompassing, rarely explained big W! It’s almost as if it’s a really lazy term for people who have been manipulated into thinking any display of thought or consideration is ‘weak’. Machismo and false nostalgia for simpler times, repackaged. Again.
@Andrew Kenny: is it because you’re a man…Paul Mescal is gorgeous…
@Sal Paradise: nothing to do with him being Irish. It’s about raw talent -both he and Keoghan haven’t it. Bluffers
Killian Scott ,Emmet Scanlan and Robert Sheehan have .
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: and gladiators? Who gives a toss about feckin gladiators (other than people who have been so distracted that this now appeals to them) small things showing the way
@Clare Power: Wrong. Colin Farrell, Domhnall Gleeson, Cillian Murphy etc. All fine male actors so no it’s not because he’s a man!
@Andrew Kenny: or that I’m a man even.
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: Cillian Murphy has it in droves
@Andrew Kenny: they’ve all got many years under their belts..give him a chance
The Royal Family were kind of trailblazing in a way. The original Big Brother House packed with influencers and endless gossipy scandal. It’s such an odd dynamic. The rags are absolutely obsessed with them. They rip them to pieces in one article, then act like the most hurt and outraged people in our galaxy if the proper genuflecting isn’t forthcoming. It will never stop being silly beyond belief.
I just don’t get this Gladiator 11 thing at all . Why would anyone be bothered with the life and doings of some guy who’s supposed to have lived 2,000 years ago ?
@Jim Ryan: Yes: eleven is way too many.
@Jim Ryan: not bothered seeing 11 given I haven’t seen the last 9 gladiators!
@Jim Ryan: Because it might be interesting? The vast majority of people still follow a book written 1,700 years ago that tells a story of man who may or may not have lived 2,000 years ago and blindly allow that book to influence their whole lives. Now that’s inexplicable!
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: I agree. Lord of the Rings is essential reading when you’re young, but turning to Gandalf’s first letter to the Hobbits for spiritual guidance, is a bit much as an adult! The Sauronic Panic was fun though!
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: Very true statement.
@John K: OK , Gladiator 2 then .
@Jim Ryan: to answer your original question they are interested in 2000 year old events for entertainment. “Are you not entertained!?” Similar to people being interested in films about fictional people/events.
@John K: should read Gladiator II
@Nerb: don’t have time to watch the movie let alone read the book. Especially since I haven’t read the 1st book.
@Jonny Hellzapoppin: inexplicable to you maybe. But that’s okay, I won’t judge you.
An average action film tbh.
I like Mescal even more , enough of this royal make believe stuff , they’re a family of messed up creeps.
Dire movie. Miscast ,familiar and nothing new. Rehashed from the original. If you haven’t seen the first one you will think this one is brilliant.
I’ll watch it, haven’t seen him in any other movie yet, he’s only 28 folks so give him a chance. My top 3 in no particular order is Pierce Brosnan, Michael Fassbender and Andrew Scott.
Better idea than Sir Bob got Nothing admirable about kow towing to so called Royals who dont pay taxes.own large swathes of g b and even make money from their charity ” work” Work? Easiest work costing tax payers 100 of millions a year !!!
Can’t say it’s one of my priorities either, looking forward to
28 years later.
It’s an okay piece of ahistorical nonsense.
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