{"id":341273,"date":"2026-03-11T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/341273\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:01:10","slug":"dramatic-arrest-in-cork-city-as-armed-gardai-surround-man-on-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/341273\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic arrest in Cork city as Armed Garda\u00ed surround man on street"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man was reported to have had a weapon in the city centre<\/p>\n

The arrest took place in the city on Wednesday afternoon<\/p>\n

The Garda Armed Support unit swooped in to arrest a man in Cork city this afternoon. In a dramatic incident on Patrick’s Hill after lunchtime, as armed officers surrounded him.<\/p>\n

The man was arrested after he was reported to have a weapon. The arrest took place at the junction of Patrick’s Hill and Coburg Street, just off MacCurtain Street, before 2 pm this afternoon, as shoppers and passersby watched as the man was placed in an ASU squad car.<\/p>\n

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The main was detained under the Criminal Justice Act<\/p>\n

The man, who is in his 50s, was stopped by Gardai after a report of a man in possession of a weapon in the Paul Street area of the city centre shortly after 1 pm. He was arrested and taken to a station in the city, where he is being detained. A Garda spokesperson said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson said: “Garda\u00ed received a report of a man in possession of a weapon in the Paul Street area of Cork city this Wednesday afternoon 11th March 2026 at approximately 1:10 pm. A male in his 50s was arrested and conveyed to a Garda Station in Cork city. He is currently being detained under the Provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984. Investigations are ongoing.”<\/p>\n

The specialist armed unit uses pistols and MP7 machine guns, as well as less-lethal launchers that fire foam rounds. A Garda Armed Support Unit is deployed to support local Garda\u00ed during high-risk operations and incidents, including all incidents involving knives and guns, as policy, to keep the public safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man was reported to have had a weapon in the city centre The arrest took place in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14641,1115,7782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-341273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-city","tag-crime","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341273","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=341273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}