{"id":188694,"date":"2025-12-12T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188694\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:38:10","slug":"gardai-appeal-for-witnesses-to-cash-in-transit-robbery-in-south-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188694\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed appeal for witnesses to cash in transit robbery in south Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A separate vehicle was set on fire as a group of men fled with a sum of cash\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A burnt out car sits next to a cash-in-transit van behind Lucan Shopping Centre while Garda\u00ed investigated the scene. Photo: Damien Storan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/87a1310d-4c4b-412f-9e27-df30092aad71.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A burnt out car sits next to a cash-in-transit van behind Lucan Shopping Centre while Garda\u00ed investigated the scene. Photo: Damien Storan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"12\/12\/25 \u2013 A burnt-out car is taken away from behind Lucan Shopping Centre after an incident on Friday afternoon. Garda\u00ed investigated the scene. Photo: Damien Storan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0834e5f0-4367-46d5-9549-e3e582826a7f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">12\/12\/25 \u2013 A burnt-out car is taken away from behind Lucan Shopping Centre after an incident on Friday afternoon. Garda\u00ed investigated the scene. Photo: Damien Storan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: A burnt out car sits next to a cash-in-transit van behind Lucan Shopping Centre while Garda\u00ed investigated the scene. Photo: Damien Storan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765579090_284_87a1310d-4c4b-412f-9e27-df30092aad71.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: 12\/12\/25 \u2013 A burnt-out car is taken away from behind Lucan Shopping Centre after an incident on Friday afternoon. Garda\u00ed investigated the scene. Photo: Damien Storan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765579090_662_0834e5f0-4367-46d5-9549-e3e582826a7f.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to a cash in transit robbery in Lucan, Dublin this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The incident took place at around 4:40pm and involved a group of men who stole cash from a parked vehicle near a shop on the Newcastle Road in Lucan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A separate vehicle was set on fire behind Lucan Shopping Centre as the men fled towards Somerton Gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following a cash in transit robbery that occurred outside a retail premises on the Newcastle Road, Lucan, Co. Dublin today, Friday 12th December 2025,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"12\/12\/25 \u2013 A burnt-out car is taken away from behind Lucan Shopping Centre after an incident on Friday afternoon. Garda\u00ed investigated the scene. Photo: Damien Storan.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e6710307-8908-4aec-b6e8-094497e4844d.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">12\/12\/25 \u2013 A burnt-out car is taken away from behind Lucan Shopping Centre after an incident on Friday afternoon. Garda\u00ed investigated the scene. Photo: Damien Storan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cShortly before 4:40pm, a number of males robbed a cash in transit vehicle parked near a retail premises. A separate vehicle was set alight and the males left the scene with a quantity of cash in the direction of Somerton Gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services quickly arrived on the scene and the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cNo injuries were reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda\u00ed have requested that people who witnessed the incident first-hand, or who have dash cam footage, to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cAny witnesses and road users who may have camera footage (including dashcam) who were in the vicinity of Newcastle Road, Somerton Gate, and the wider Somerton Estate between 4:15pm and 5:00pm are asked to contact Lucan Garda station on (01) 666 7300, the Garda Confidential Line at 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 A separate vehicle was set on fire as a group of men fled with a sum of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,1286,43],"class_list":["post-188694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-keith-kelly","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}