{"id":583429,"date":"2026-08-05T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583429\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:28:08","slug":"gardai-convince-man-who-climbed-crane-in-dublin-city-centre-to-come-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583429\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed convince man who climbed crane in Dublin city centre to come down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-updated-redesign article-updated-redesign-\" title=\"Tuesday 4 Aug 2026, 10:36 PM\">\n<p>                            LAST UPDATE<br \/>\n                            |<br \/>\n                            2 hrs ago\n                        <\/p>\n<p>A MAN WHO climbed to the top of a crane in Dublin city centre has safely returned to the ground after negotiations with garda\u00ed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has since been arrested and is being detained at a garda station in the Dublin area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Talbot Street and led emergency services to cordon off the area, which disrupted traffic and meant Luas services at Marlborough Street stop were suspended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Dublin Fire Brigade on social media earlier this evening showed Merlborough Street cordoned off with garda\u00ed and a number of fire engines visible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said emergency services had responded \u201cfollowing concerns for an adult male who had climbed a crane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na responded to the incident and activated its Operational Command protocol,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn on-scene commander was appointed and garda negotiators, along with several other garda units, attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough successful negotiations, garda\u00ed were able to safely remove the male from the crane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luas has said that tram services have returned on the Green Line but are operating with some delays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 2 hrs ago A MAN WHO climbed to the top of a crane in Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,34724,246244,61,60,14350,214737,43,223453],"class_list":["post-583429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-fire-brigade","tag-green-line-luas","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-luas","tag-marlborough-street","tag-news","tag-talbot-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583429","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=583429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}