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Larbre34 · 26-05-2021 1:06pm

He started firing shots for some reason and the first two detectives responded. He then shot at and wounded them.

wandererz · 26-05-2021 1:27pm

Plainclothes detectives went over to inform someone (possibly him) that they had information that he was being targeted.

Speculating here: Perhaps he had this information already and when he saw two guys approaching the house he thought he would take them out rather than them take him out.

Phil.x · 26-05-2021 1:38pm

He's was a member of they westies gang, so how the hell does a man with a huge criminal record and is still involved in organized crime have two automatic guns at home?
Can the garda not do random house/car raids on criminals at this level.
It's hard to believe that this longterm criminal can have, not one but two firearms at his home and the garda didn't know, care or do anything about it, but yet come and warn him his life is in danger and then get shot!! WTF.
A leopard and his spots comes to mind.

wandererz · 26-05-2021 1:45pm

Phil.x wrote: »

He's was a member of they westies gang, so how the hell does a man with a huge criminal record and is still involved in organized crime have two automatic guns at home?

errm... i think you answered your own question there.

Phil.x wrote: »

Can the garda not do random house/car raids on criminals at this level.
It's hard to believe that this longterm criminal can have, not one but two firearms at his home and the garda didn't know, care or do anything about it, but yet come and warn him his life is in danger and then get shot!!

I think they need reasonable suspicion. Can't just go about invading peoples privacy for no reason.

Although, i wonder what reasonable suspicion they had to go bust the chef with osteoporosis down in Cork for €4 of weed.

Larbre34 · 26-05-2021 3:53pm

Thats it in a nutshell, they don't have the resources to man mark these characters with surveillance and intelligence all at once. And getting a warrant for a domicile search has a pretty high bar, its not done on a whim, nor should it be frankly.

TheValeyard · 31-05-2021 3:50pm

Garda helicopter going non stop around Carpenterstown last couple hours. Wonder what's happening

LorelaiG · 01-06-2021 7:03am

Maybe he shot because he knew he'd be arrested and put away... ? Safer in custody than out on the streets when there's a threat on your life ..

Larbre34 · 01-06-2021 2:34pm

LorelaiG wrote: »

Maybe he shot because he knew he'd be arrested and put away... ? Safer in custody than out on the streets when there's a threat on your life ..

Not quite.

I understand he was aware of an imminent threat. When the Guards arrived in plain clothes (jeans and hoodies rather than suit and tie) and an unmarked car, ironically to warn him about said threat, the paranoia overtook and he perceived them as a threat. Anyway, that excuses nothing, the possession and discharge of firearma and the actual bodily harm done to the wounded Guards will see him get 10 years at least.

raheny red · 26-06-2021 2:44pm

https://twitter.com/Lyncchh/status/1408357587976867842?s=19

Caranica · 12-08-2021 4:32am

4.30am and I've been awake for over 35 minutes as something big is clearly going down. What I presume is the Garda helicopter isn't just overhead, it's swooping down so low I thought it was going to come through my roof - I've never heard it so noisy. I'm in Waterville so don't know if it's checking out our woods or if it's over in Corduff.

Glossy1 · 12-08-2021 8:08am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117740966#Comment_117740966

Heard it as well, I'm the other side from you towards Power c!Ty . Was wondering what part it was going around.

Caranica · 12-08-2021 8:39am

I'm wrecked this morning. It was there for about 40 minutes then fecked off but came back again for about another 10 minutes. Haven't heard anything on the news.

miamee · 12-08-2021 1:01pm

I must have been out like a light because I am about half way between the two of you (ish) and I heard nothing!

Caranica · 12-08-2021 5:07pm

Talking to neighbours who were similarly disturbed during the night. One said there were armed Gardai at a checkpoint on the snugborough road this morning at the IDA business park and another said there had been a similar checkpoint earlier in the week.

Caranica · 13-08-2021 8:06am

Update: they were looking for two people and they have been detained. Don't know if it's in the media but a friend has contacts in the Garda station.

Caranica · 31-08-2021 12:06pm

Guy from a certain community going door to door in Waterville "doing work for some neighbours" and wanting to clean my gutters "inside and outside".

Larbre34 · 07-09-2021 3:22pm

An illegal encampment has appeared on the bit of green space on Damastown Road, within the industrial area, at the entrance to the IBM campus and the Guerbet plant.

Beware of associated petty criminality until it is removed.

Polar101 · 10-09-2021 12:24am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117858850#Comment_117858850

Last time (or after one of the times) it happened they built a low wooden fence around the green. I guess it didn't work so well.

Larbre34 · 10-09-2021 8:29pm

I didn't spot what parts of the fence might have gone missing, but some bits must have.

miamee · 04-10-2021 4:23pm

I'm hearing a LOT of sirens in the Blakestown area over the last 10 minutes or so, I think they are headed in the Huntstown/Hartstown direction but can't be sure. Any idea what is going on out there?

miamee · 04-10-2021 5:06pm

The sirens are still going though less often and the Garda helicopter was out for a while but also gone now. Still have no idea what it was.

Glossy1 · 04-10-2021 5:24pm

Heard 3 lads got Slashed In ashfeild

miamee · 04-10-2021 6:34pm

RTE news : Three people injured in assault at house in Dublin

http://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2021/1004/1250718-assault-blanchardstown/

Just spotted this on RTE.

LorelaiG · 04-10-2021 8:05pm

Apparently a grandfather and his grand child and the grandchild's partner.

Larbre34 · 04-10-2021 9:15pm

A news update just now saying one person is now dead and two others injured following an "assault incident" at an address in Ashfield, Blakestown.

miamee · 04-10-2021 11:18pm

Gardaí are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident but are looking for dashcam footage from the area or any witnesses who were nearby between 12 - 4pm

Phil.x · 04-10-2021 11:41pm

156 bicycles stolen from clonsilla Station last year, the guy in Station said 5 were stolen last week, garda apparently have very little time for it and Irish rail won't entertain it at all.

Young kids go in and mark the saddles of the ones they want and a few minutes later a guy goes in with an angle grinder and or metal bar and takes them into a van parked around the bend.

Brock Turnpike · 05-10-2021 3:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117977624#Comment_117977624

Really? I'm often there with my daughter as she loves running up and down the little hill that leads into the bike shed. Never seen anything fishy there (although admittedly it is bright/middle of the day when we're there)

Flinty997 · 10-10-2021 8:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117977624#Comment_117977624

Where did you get those numbers from...

Larbre34 · 10-10-2021 9:33pm

3 per week? I'd say 3 a week reported....

Phil.x · 10-10-2021 10:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118001996#Comment_118001996

The guy who compiled them, the guy in the station.

managerman · 22-11-2021 2:06pm

Cars robbed on Sunday morning in Willow Wood, at 6.00am. 1 Man caught on camera from numerous houses, walking house to house checking cars for unlocked doors etc.

TheValeyard · 16-12-2021 2:39pm

Seems to be fair few cars interfered with around D15, Carpenterstown, Luttrelstown, Castleknock area.

Polar101 · 21-03-2022 3:58am

Anyone know what was going on tonight at around 1:50am, (Garda?) helicopter flying around Clonsilla/Ongar, and 7-8 Garda vehicles heading towards Blanch on Ongar Road?

Larbre34 · 21-03-2022 5:05am

I dunno, but the bastarding chopper woke me up and Im not back to sleep!

It seemed to be orbiting over the Ongar Park area for a while and I heard the sirens but couldn't tell which direction they were going.

Caranica · 21-03-2022 9:00am

I heard what I thought was a gunshot around 10.15 last night. Then about 12.55am it was like someone sat on a car horn for almost 10 minutes. I'm in Waterville so was coming from Corduff direction.

Larbre34 · 21-03-2022 5:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118812585#Comment_118812585

Gio2 · 21-03-2022 6:07pm

Car was set on fire in Waterville in the parking spaces behind Blasket square. Fuel tank exploded which was probably what you heard and a number of other vehicles were damaged.

Larbre34 · 30-09-2022 3:42pm

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/shocking-cctv-footage-shows-catalytic-converter-stolen-from-car-in-dublin-42026897.html

Not a new phenomenon in the area, but brazen and potentially violent all the same.

Note the car and descriptions.

Larbre34 · 08-10-2022 6:29pm

Gardaí are at the scene of the discovery of the bodies of a woman in her 40s and a baby boy in the Beechfield estate, Clonee, off the Littlepace to Ongar road.

Clearly a dreadful tragedy of some sort, thoughts with those affected.

Larbre34 · 05-02-2023 5:32pm

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-sends-23k-complaints-to-dublin-airport-5988117-Feb2023/

Our bonkers neighbour has been at it again.

ozmo · 06-02-2023 12:17am

Is must be some sort of automated script - something running in a loop checking constantly if a radartracker website records a plane flying close to him or something like that- it fills out an online form and submits it.

Gaspode · 06-02-2023 11:16pm

Clearly a disturbed individual, that's not normal behaviour by any standard.

Fatnacho · 13-02-2023 11:15pm

Big fire on the derelict building site beside the Clonsilla Applegreen last night. Seems to be a lot of anti-social behaviour around it the past few weeks. Could be an insurance job to get money back. Whoever is to blame is pretty irresponsible though considering how close it is to a petrol station.

Larbre34 · 13-06-2023 9:44pm

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-in-serious-condition-after-assault-in-dublin-6092493-Jun2023/

Reports of a very serious stabbings of a man in Ongar at 7pm, seems to have been outside Dominos Pizza by the arch into Dunnes.

Other details have been posted on social media, but are not verifiable.

Caranica · 13-06-2023 10:34pm

Unfortunately he passed away. May he rest in peace.

Man in his 40s dies after attack in Ongar area of Dublin

https://jrnl.ie/6092493

Larbre34 · 13-06-2023 11:31pm

Yeah there was speculation when I heard it, but as the media has it now it's obviously confirmed.

What an awful incident, may he rest in peace.

Its probably a discussion for another day, but general anti-social behaviour issues in and around Ongar village needs serious attention and community action.

Brock Turnpike · 13-06-2023 11:34pm

That's **** terrible.

greencap · 15-06-2023 2:18am

D15 needs more police.

Larbre34 · 15-06-2023 1:46pm

It certainly does, especially out on the fringes where Ongar is, but they can't be on every corner and the reports of this are a tragic and explosive incident which perhaps no police presence could have prevented.

Thankfully there had been a speedy arrest and hopefully swift justice.

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