Man dies following incident in Dublin city centre
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2026/0516/1573662-henry-street-dublin-investigation/
Posted by CoDn00b95
Man dies following incident in Dublin city centre
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2026/0516/1573662-henry-street-dublin-investigation/
Posted by CoDn00b95
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>During the incident, a man in his 80s was injured as the suspect attempted to flee the scene.
>The elderly man was taken to the Mater Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
>Gardaí say the detained man subsequently became unresponsive at the scene and was brought to the Mater Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
I can’t make sense of this at all.
So an 80 year old was knocked over as the thief ran. The 80 year old was taken to the Mater.
The thief was caught after hitting the 80 year old, thenThe thief died.
Is that the line here? Only confused because before this article droppe, I’d heard someone say it was an 80 year old thief who died after the Garda grabbed him.
5 year investigation by Fiosrú pending.
Wonder if he swallowed something when the gards were called
Christ the wording in the article is absolutely abysmal…
Some poor misfortunate security man (most likely a foreign lad doing his best) will be dragged through legal hell for standing up a bit for law and order.
When I heard it on the news it said the shoplifter died but the elderly man was ok
“subsequently became unresponsive at the scene” what kind of a way to die is this?
It reads weird because shoplifting, while obviously illegal, doesn’t typically result in aggressive pursuit. It’s hardly grand theft auto, like? Certainly not in a busy area where others (including the pursuer) could be harmed as a result.
I’ve worked in a lot of city centre retail (including Henry Street) and security usually are more of a deterrent/witness, and there to ensure that staff/shoppers don’t get harmed. I don’t think I’ve worked anywhere that expected security to chase shoplifters down. It’s not typically treated as an urgent situation.
CCTV is usually plenty to make a report with the gardai and frankly a lot of shoplifters are well known to local gardai so they often recognise them from the videos.
Anyway if it happened where this photo shows, I’m sure there will be plenty of CCTV angles.
But it’s still weird.
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So… did thief fall and hit his head, or did he randomly die for no specific reason as this article seems to imply.