{"id":230223,"date":"2026-01-06T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T10:37:14","slug":"man-arrested-after-making-threats-at-blanchardstown-garda-station-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230223\/","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":230224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,613,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-230223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-blanchardstown","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230223","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=230223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}