{"id":647618,"date":"2026-08-20T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/647618\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:27:14","slug":"two-men-arrested-following-multi-unit-garda-pursuit-of-suspected-burglary-gang-in-west-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/647618\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested following multi-unit garda pursuit of suspected burglary gang in west Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AT LEAST TWO members of a suspected burglary gang have been arrested following a garda operation in west Dublin this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The operation is understood to have involved specialist and plain-clothes garda units targeting an organised burglary gang.<\/p>\n<p>Both men are understood to have fled from garda\u00ed during the operation, prompting searches across parts of west Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>One man is understood to have entered the River Liffey in the Chapelizod area while attempting to evade garda\u00ed, while another was arrested in the nearby area.<\/p>\n<p>The two men are now in garda custody, sources have said.<\/p>\n<p>The Garda Air Support Unit helicopter was also involved in the operation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787246834_176_.JPEG\"  alt=\"IMG-20260820-WA0002\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            The garda helicopter photographed in the Chapelizod area.                    The Journal<\/p>\n<p>    The Journal\n<\/p>\n<p>The operation followed a number of high-value burglaries across Dublin in recent days which garda\u00ed are understood to have been investigating.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal has contacted An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AT LEAST TWO members of a suspected burglary gang have been arrested following a garda operation in west&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[15493,9,10,10474,715,18,13,14,89120,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,273963,80936],"class_list":["post-647618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arrest","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-chapelizod","tag-crime","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-gang","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-ublin","tag-west-dublin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117129016751061337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647618","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=647618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}