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 A Garda Detective narrowly escaped serious injury last night, when a firearm was discharged above his head, during his pursuit of a burglary gang, across Co Kildare.
Gardaí had been in pursuit of a black Audi estate car. The Audi, which bore a partial registration of 151 G, was suspected of being involved in a number of burglaries in the Cork and Tipperary area. The Tipperary raid is understood to have occurred in New Inn, South Tipperary where the high-powered vehicle was identified as being associated with the theft of a gun safe containing three individual firearms.
The Audi was later spotted by Garda units close to Monasterevin, Co. Kildare at 9.30pm last night. Officers had observed the car driving at high speed through the area, heading towards the Kildare Road.
Officers followed the car from an area known as Ashgrove, Kildare, before halting it at nearby Larch Hill, Kildare. A male; the occupant of the front passenger seat, armed with a shotgun, then dismounted from the vehicle and fired a single shot over a detective Garda’s head. Thankfully no one was injured during the incident.
We understand other armed Garda units were then made aware of this incident and responded by halting a silver Hyundai car at Pollardstown in Newbridge at about 10.30pm.
We also understand that three male individuals; aged 23, 27 and 32 years of age, were arrested and today remain in custody at Portlaoise and Tullamore garda stations.
This latest incident comes about as a depleted rural Garda force struggles to curb a renewed blitz of rural burglaries being conducted in the Midlands, by Dublin and Limerick based criminal gangs.
 A 51-year-old male has been arrested in Co Tipperary today, (under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act) in connection with the murder of a man in West Cork last September.
The arrested man is being detained at Bandon Garda Station.
The murdered body of Mr John Ustic had been found in the living room of his rented house at High Street, Skibbereen on Monday September 25th last. Gardaí had later designated the death as one of murder, following a post-mortem examination carried out on the Englishman’s body by the State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy, who declared that it was clear that Mr Ustic had died as a result of an injury sustained in a recent assault.
Initially the alarm has been raised when Mr Ustic was found by his partner in the living room of their rented, terraced house at High Street in Skibbereen, at around 9.00am on the date in question. Mr Ustic had been last seen in a nearby car park on the previous Sunday evening, where he had been found bearing the marks of bruising and with major cuts, by neighbours, who brought him to his home just opposite.
It is understood that the arrest may have been made following the examination of CCTV footage obtained from local businesses.
On the night of the 16th April 2012, men broke down a glass rear door to the Garvey family home situated at Sunville House, near Pallasgreen in Co Limerick. The raiders, Limerick Circuit Court was told today, were armed with a sawn-off shotgun, a sledgehammer and a baseball bat, and threatened the aforementioned family, before assaulted them and changing their lives for ever.
Mr Patrick Roche, aged 54 years, his son Mr Philip Roche, aged 24 years, with addresses in Clondalkin Co. Dublin, and a son-in-law Mr Alan Freeman, aged 36 years, with an address at No. 73 Pierce Park, Tipperary Town, Co. Tipperary; who all denied their part in the robbery, were all found guilty of the crime following a nine-week trial.
The three men subjected Mr Gerard Garvey, his wife Ann, and their four teenage children (two sets of twins aged 17 and 14) to a frightening ordeal. In demands for money, Mr Garvey was handcuffed and facially assaulted with the sawn-off shotgun before being informed that both he and his household would be murdered. One of his teenage daughters was tied up using cable ties, while one of his sons was also facially assaulted. The court was informed that the children of the family suffered nightmares; today remain frightened by even the slightest noise, while each day they remain fearful that a similar ordeal could reoccur.
The raiders eventually escaped, but not before stealing a large amount of cash from a family safe.
Mr Philip Roche and Mr Alan Freeman are on record as having a number of previous offences for both aggravated robbery and assault, with Mr Freeman having had one previous conviction sentence reduced by two years on appeal.
Sentencing by Mr Justice John Hannan will be imposed on November 24th 2017 next.
With banking institutions now curtailing counter services and with little or no interest being accrued on deposits / savings accounts; rural dwellers, in particular, are now being encouraged literally by these shameful institutions, to no longer lodge large sums of cash; holding same in their homes; something current government must now discuss and urgently address.
Gardaí are urgently appealing for information, after a middle-aged man was assaulted before being locked into a shed, during an aggravated burglary, some 9.0 km (6 miles approx.) from Roscrea, in Co. Tipperary.
The incident is believed to have begun at around 2.00am, when four men are understood to have forced their way into the victim’s farmhouse, situated at Glasderrybeg, Brosna, Co. Offaly, just a 10 minute drive from Roscrea, in Co. Tipperary.
The male occupant of the farmhouse, a farmer and sole resident aged in his mid-50’s, was assaulted and then confined in a shed. The farmer, however, managed to escape from the shed to a neighbouring house, where the alarm was raised and an ambulance summoned. The victim was taken to the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, where he remains for treatment to what are described thankfully as “non life-threatening injuries”.
It is understood that this is the second time that this particular farmhouse has been the target of unwelcome intruders in the last six weeks, with this morning’s criminal element quickly fleeing the scene, having stolen what was described as “a small sum of money”.
Gardaí at Birr Garda Station are appealing to farmers, local residents and landowners in the Shinrone area, to check for discarded clothing in fields or hedgerows. They are asking that if such clothing is located, please not to handle same and to contact, immediately, Birr Garda Station at Tel: 057-9169710.
Gardaí have also appealed to anyone who may have noticed anything suspicious or may have identified unusual vehicle movements in the Drumakeenan and Glassderrybeg areas on the N62 Birr to Roscrea Road, either last night or in previous days leading up to today’s incident; to contact them at Birr Garda Station, at Tel: 057-9169710 or via the Garda Confidential Line at Tel: 1800 666 111.
 Tipperary’s all-time leading goalscorer; GPA All Stars “Hurler Of The Year”; and current licensee of Coppinger’s bar, Mr Lar Corbett has been fined €250, having pleaded guilty to allowing persons to remain on his pub premises, for almost one full hour after the official closing time of 12.30 a.m.
The winner of two All-Ireland senior hurling titles with Tipperary in 2001 and 2010; Mr Corbett pleaded guilty to one count of a breach of the licensing laws, when he appeared before Judge Elizabeth MacGrath at Nenagh District Courthouse.
Sergeant Michael Keating informed Nenagh Court, that at 1.25 a.m. on July 17th 2016, Gardaí inspected ‘Coppinger’s Bar’, latter situated on Parnell Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, and found some 20 persons still seated drinking on the premises. A previous conviction for a similar offence was found, dating back to 2015, for which Mr Corbett then received a fine of €200.
In this case Judge Elizabeth MacGrath fined Mr Corbett €250, allowing him six months in which to make the emolument.
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