Gardaí last night arrested a man following a three-hour stand-off after the man armed himself with a knife and barricaded himself into his rented house in west Cork,
writes Barry Roche.
Armed officers from the regional support unit broke into the house and overpowered the man who had barricaded himself into the house following a domestic dispute. It is understood the man’s wife had taken their children from the house in Courtmacsherry and contacted the Garda. A Garda negotiator spent over an hour trying to persuade the man to leave before officers entered the house.