{"id":270172,"date":"2026-01-06T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270172\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:25:07","slug":"man-arrested-after-making-threats-at-blanchardstown-garda-station-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270172\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after making threats at Blanchardstown Garda station \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has been arrested after allegedly threatening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">garda\u00ed<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/blanchardstown\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/blanchardstown\/\">Blanchardstown<\/a> Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">According to a Garda statement, the man entered the station in Dublin 15 shortly before 4am on Tuesday and made a number of threats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Officers from the National Negotiators Unit, along with members of the Armed Support Unit, attended the scene. A cordon and local diversions were put in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident was resolved peacefully following negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man was detained under the provisions of section 12 of the Mental Health Act 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A media blackout &#8211; under which media organisations are asked not to report on the situation while efforts to resolve it continue &#8211; was also put in place but has since been lifted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The roads that were closed have been re-opened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">No injuries were reported and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after allegedly threatening garda\u00ed at Blanchardstown Garda station. According to a Garda statement,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,22431,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-270172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-blanchardstown","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115847910093182034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}