{"id":599420,"date":"2026-08-20T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599420\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:42:11","slug":"two-men-arrested-following-multi-unit-garda-pursuit-of-suspected-burglary-gang-in-west-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599420\/","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.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787251331_378_.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":599421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59227,91863,1115,8760,61,60,43,254068,59499],"class_list":["post-599420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-arrest","tag-chapelizod","tag-crime","tag-gang","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ublin","tag-west-dublin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599420","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=599420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}