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LAST UPDATE | 11 Jan 2024
GARDAÍ ARE APPEALING for witnesses following a robbery that took place at a jewellers at Arundel Square in the centre of Waterford City yesterday evening.
According to gardaí, a lone male entered the business armed with a machete and began threatening staff around 5pm. He then fled the scene on a bicycle via Henrietta Street with “a quantity of stolen items”.
The machete and bicycle believed to have been used in the robbery have been recovered by investigating gardaí, this morning for technical examination.
Gardaí are asking for any pedestrians or road users who were in Arundel Square shopping district between 4.45pm and 5.45pm to contact them.
They are appealing for any camera footage, including dashcam footage. Gardaí said they are also interested footage taken in the surrounding areas of Spring Garden Alley and New Street around that time.
Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to contact Waterford Garda Station on 051 305300, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.
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Perhaps they could give a physical description, no? “A lone male” isn’t very distinguishable.
@Tríona Commode: Yeah. I saw a lone male with a machete that day but I’m not sure if it’s the one that talking about.
@Tom Dillon: Is he still carrying it?
@Tríona Commode: I heard he had a head, two legs, two arms and was clothed. What more do you want? ;-)
@Tríona Commode: Why? Are you going to try to catch him?
Not to worry!!!! This must be fake news!!!Helen McEntee said the streets are SAFE and FFG and GP voted confidence in her.
Presumably the staff were able to give a good description of this man, yet the report just says man with machete. This is not very helpful if the Gardai wish to apprehend this man! Is there a reason why his description is not given?
@Brian Hunt:
It’s likely that he had hands and head covered so the staff couldn’t give a description beyond ‘male’
A picture or a detailed description would be helpful.
Machete! Jesus.
This piece was written by ‘Sadhbh Cox’. Is that a real person, or is someone at The Journal just having a laugh for once?
@Tríona Commode: *Sadbh Cox
@Tríona Commode: And you can’t even type it accurately.
@Brendan O’Brien: I immediately corrected my myself, even before you could snipe for trifling errors.
@Tríona Commode: you do realise that Sadbh is pronounced “Sive” and isn’t uncommon, at all. Cox, also isn’t a very uncommon family name?
What are you actually getting at? A childish giggle at Cox, is it? Making fun of people’s names is where the comments are at now!
@Tríona Commode: You corrected your yourself: well done. Sniping at someone’s name is what got you into this mess.
@Soundy Sound: Actually, it’s more like, ‘sy-iv’, if you know Irish at all. Also, I recall someone somewhere suggesting that ‘Sadbh Wang’ would be a good name for a spoof journalist.
@Brendan O’Brien: What mess?
@Tríona Commode: It’s one syllable. Stop incorrecting people.
@Brendan O’Brien: How is ‘my myself’ a correction? It’s a further error.
@Alan: So sorry typing errors upset you. It’s unfortunate one cannot edit one’s comments here.
@Brendan O’Brien: No. ‘-dbh’ would represent two syllables in most Irish dialects, just probably not in your playschool nursery rhyme equivalent.
@Brendan O’Brien: go back to sleep
“A LONE MALE” if a recruit in Templemore, gave that, as the only description, of a suspect in an aggravated robbery, in a practical exam, he would be shown the gates.
What garda rank is responsible for such ridiculous description?
It would seem to me that the suspect is being given every chance to escape!@
Where were the Guards when this was going on ? Main area in a busy city and nothing ? It’s nothing exactly a large city with miles of shopping areas ? Would it not be common sense to at least keep one guard in the main shopping area during daylight hours ?
@Iron Man: To be fair – it’s not like the entrance to the jewellery shop is within view of the Garda Station front entrance and about 20 second drive down a short hill. Oh wait..
All of you gagging for it to be a foreigner but what group of people are usually associated with machetes and slash hooks? No description of attackers for pharmacy robbery in artane either by the way.
@eoin fitzpatrick: who exactly is gagging for it to be a foreigner? You seem to be taking the higher moral ground whilst also insulting another minority….what a hypocrite!
@eoin fitzpatrick: gardeners?
How did he come up with that plan,did he hatchet himself.
@Larry Betts: sharp wit as usual Larry
New York Times names Waterford top place to visit in 2024, until that’s ruined by antisocial behaviour. Just like Dublin
@GVR: New York Times nominated Waterford as a great place due to its rich history,it’s stunning scenery and because it is to the forefront of cutting edge technology. Unfortunately the idea of knocking off a jewelers with a machete is not what they meant by “cutting edge technology”
I immediately corrected myself, even before you could snipe for trifling errors.
Maybe they couldn’t give a description, because he was the invisible man without any identification, from an invisible country.
@Paddy Connolly: was only a matter of time before someone threw the stone at immigrants, if you seen a man with a machete, what he looks like is irrelevant, if you didnt see a man with a machete then you are of no help
Should be rewarded for a zero-carbon theft?
The police are appealing for info on this thug? What will they do when/if the thug is brought before the courts, and, upon appeal, he’s given yet another suspended sentence. It is no wonder that the cops are scarce on the ground; they’re continually undermined so, I guess, they kinda bow out. I would.
People like him should be given the chop!
I’d say it’s going to go down the charts in America now…..it was no 51 on their list of great places to visit.
Where are all these machetes coming from .. you don’t go to Tesco and get a machete they must be being brought in by boat?
@Tríona Commode: You need to further correct yourself in a whole manner of ways.
@Tom Dillon: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”
@Brian Hunt: let he who is without brain quote the bible
So many contributors are seeking extra information regarding the man’s description. There is only one thing they want to know. Is he foreign? They just don’t have the nuts to say it.
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