Armed raider tackled by customers in Dublin pub

exaisle · 02-01-2018 10:49am #1

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0102/930590-tallaght-robbery/

...wouldn't happen on the north side...

Hande hoche! · 02-01-2018 10:51am

Fair play to them.

myshirt · 02-01-2018 10:54am

If you had just ordered a pint and this guy came in, you would have every right to be annoyed.

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-01-2018 10:57am

I presume the three customers were more heavily armed than the raider

andekwarhola · 02-01-2018 11:14am

Rule #1 in Tallaght. Never fcuk up somebody's lock in.

King George VI · 02-01-2018 11:18am

exaisle wrote: »

...wouldn't happen on the north side...

Pretty sure it happens every day on the Northside. It doesn't make the news because it's a common occurrence :pac:

Hannibal_Smith · 02-01-2018 11:24am

Read that this morning! Fair play to them! Would do my nut if I ordered my last pint and some fecker tried to interfere with it :pac:

RoboRat · 02-01-2018 11:48am

I get to go out maybe 3 or 4 nights a year, if someone decides to ruin that night for me, they are spending a few nights in hospital. Fair play to the folks involved, never get between a man and their pint.

xper · 02-01-2018 11:49am

Hold my beer...

the beer revolu · 02-01-2018 12:00pm

I'm in two minds about this. If you tackle someone with a shotgun in a crowded place you are not just putting yourself in danger but rather everyone in the place.
Glad no one was hurt and the perpetrator was arrested, though.

Kimbot · 02-01-2018 12:50pm

andekwarhola wrote: »

Rule #1 in Tallaght. Never fcuk up somebody's lock in.

Lucky it wasnt tallaght so :pac:

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Ralf and Florian · 02-01-2018 1:04pm

the beer revolu wrote: »

I'm in two minds about this. If you tackle someone with a shotgun in a crowded place you are not just putting yourself in danger but rather everyone in the place.
Glad no one was hurt and the perpetrator was arrested, though.

The Sweeny weren't bothered with health and safety when tackling tooled up villians. "Shut it you slag!"

andekwarhola · 02-01-2018 1:07pm

jonnycivic wrote: »

Lucky it wasnt tallaght so :pac:

Let me guess, you're from Firhouse and touchy about your postcode

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andekwarhola · 02-01-2018 1:38pm

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Firhouse and Tallaght have the same postcode, but they are not the same place.

Don't worry, I won't spill the beans that Firhouse isn't actually Knocklyon and is considerded by everybody in Dublin 24 to be indistinguishable from and bang beside Tallaght.

Plus I like my joke so don't want to change it

exaisle · 02-01-2018 1:43pm

Turns out the gun was a replica....not sure if the perpetrator is to be more pitied than laughed at....

Sure feckit....ha ha ha...the poor hoor :-)

Atlantic Dawn · 02-01-2018 1:43pm

Turns out the gun was a replica, reminds me of this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDkKduNT684

cajonlardo · 02-01-2018 3:51pm

I wouldn't like to think what would have happened. If the weapon was real.

Think it over for a moment. You are quietly enjoying a drink. Billy the Bolllix arrives to rob the takings. Stay calm and stay quiet and after a few moments all goes back to normal. Tackle the robber and if the weapon is real then a squeeze of the trigger sprays bullets into a crowded pub.
Personally don't think it's sensible - risk far outweighs the reward.

Unless of course, someone copped firearm wasn't real but that is unlikely

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ohnonotgmail · 02-01-2018 4:22pm

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there will be more people claiming to be there than there are people claiming to be the first man on the balcony at Princes Gate.

AnneFrank · 02-01-2018 4:24pm

pretty stupid to risk the lives of everyone in the pub, for someone else's insured money in my opinion.
They got lucky that it was a fake that's all. Drink fuelled bravado.
Look at Charlie Chawke for example, the millionaire wouldn't let go of a bag of insured money and lost a leg for it

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GhostyMcGhost · 03-01-2018 3:12pm

Poor fella* was battered when he appeared in court

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/battered-and-bruised-father-of-one-appears-in-court-charged-with-attempted-robbery-of-dublin-pub-821096.html

* my heart bleeds for him

ohnonotgmail · 03-01-2018 3:14pm

they certainly gave him a good kicking.

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Turner · 03-01-2018 6:56pm

And he got bail.

Ireland, a country where you can run into a pub with a firearm, shout the name of a terrorist organisation and attempt to rob the place.

All the time knowing that if you do actually caught, you will be released on bail.

Now is his chance to make/rob enough money as he can before his eventual trial.

To accumulate a fine nest egg to soften and get him through any prison time he might get.

Although he might actually get a suspended setence.