Updated 9.20pm
TWO MEN HAVE been charged in connection with an armed robbery outside a supermarket in the Balgaddy area of Lucan yesterday.
A man who was sitting in a van was threatened by two men with a suspected firearm at around 2pm yesterday.
The men demanded money and fled the scene in a Ford Mondeo.
According to gardaí:
The vehicle was abandoned on Esker Lane a short time later and a number of gardaí carried out a search of the area and two men were arrested.
The men are aged in their late 20s and mid 30s.
Both appeared before District Court 2 at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin this evening.
The proceeds of the robbery have been recovered, along with a firearm. The investigation is ongoing.
- with reporting from Órla Ryan
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