Sergeant breaks ankle in incident at Dundalk Garda Station

Dundalk Garda Station

A garda sergeant suffered a broken ankle following an incident outside Dundalk Garda Station this morning.

According to LMFM, a taxi driver pulled into the car park of the station at The Crescent around 5.30am and told Gardaí a passenger was refusing to get out of the vehicle.

The man then became aggressive when officers asked him to leave the taxi and pulled out what appeared to be a handgun, which he pointed at a garda.

An officer managed to disarm him though before discovering the weapon was a fake.

The man is said to have violently resisted arrest after that and despite pepper spray being used, he charged at the Garda, with a sergeant who attempted to restrain him breaking his right ankle in the struggle.

The sergeant was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda for treatment, with his attacker also brought to hospital shortly after being arrested for treatment to a prior head injury.

He remains in Garda custody there this morning.

A different kind of taxi rank

Mark Quigley has been busy working on his Then/Now project for the past few months and here’s another stunning shot of Crowe Street, as captured from the Market Square.

In it he shows the street in its current format with the hoardings around the Queen’s Hotel building but there’s also old-style cars parked at what is now the taxi rank, showing how things once were outside the Courthouse and Town Hall.

Check out more of Mark’s work here.

Dundalk Gardaí investigating Crowe Street assault

The incident occurred at the taxi rank in Crowe Street

Gardaí in Dundalk are appealing for witnesses to a serious assault that occurred on Crowe Street last month.

The incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning February 16^th at 2.30am at the taxi rank.

A male, who was with a female at the time, was behind the apparent attack.

Anyone who was in the vicinity at the time is asked to contact Dundalk Gardaí as they continue their investigations into the incident.