Category: Crime

The Poddle has been associated with many types of crimes. This section describes events such as cider gangs, vandals, riots and much more.

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Two centuries ago
Two centuries ago
12 Sep 1730

Last Tuesday night, two Sharpers after they had gotten a Prey, adjourned in the New Row on the Poddle, in order to share the Booty, where disagreeing, they drew their…

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Two Centuries Ago
Two Centuries Ago
15 Nov 1735

TWO CENTURIES AGO Wednesday last two more of the Cavan Rioters were whipped through the Liberty. In the Procession one of them, as the Car came to a dirty Slough, was pleased to present the Hangman…

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Two centuries ago
Two centuries ago
1 Jun 1751

Friday night, one William Jackson butcher in Kevin Street, attempting to scale the wall of the Bishop of Elphin’s garden, was shot by a Person appointed to watch, as his…

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Two centuries ago
Two centuries ago
21 Apr 1752

Yesterday morning about nine o’clock, the Liberty Boys being informed that several Pieces of English Cloth were sent out of the City to the Clothiers in Chamber Street and Weavers’…

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Two centuries ago
Two centuries ago
8 Aug 1752

Last Tuesday (4th) the Liberties and Franchises of this City were ridden and perambulated by the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and City Officers, and by the, 24 Corporations who all…

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Punishment For Stealing Meal
Punishment For Stealing Meal
1 Feb 1766

Dennis Sullivan was whipped from the Cross Poddle to Harold’s Cross for [s]tealing Meal. Mr. Justice Drury attended, who caused a Bag of Meal to be tied round the Delinquent’s neck,…

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A crime of a most fiendish nature
A crime of a most fiendish nature
4 Mar 1879

A crime of a most fiendish nature was attempted within the last few days in the city a crime which makes the blood chill, when remembering that it was the…

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“The Phantom’s” Last Stand – In his shirt
“The Phantom’s” Last Stand – In his shirt
1 Aug 1954

If the sentence of five years penal servitude passed last Friday on 30-year-old John Broe, stated to be a native of Templeogue, Co. Dublin, has put an end to the…

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Vandalism
Vandalism
6 Sep 1968

Vandals’ have destroyed the new footbridge across the river Poddle at the top of Bangor Rd. The concrete and tubular- steel bridge which was used as a shortcut by hundreds…

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Appeal launched for St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Appeal launched for St. Patrick’s Cathedral
24 Mar 1972

ST. PATRICK’S Cathedral in from the 5th Century, and which has withstood the ravages of lime and even Cromwell, is now being attacked by a new and hidden enemy —…

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Cider gangs terrify residents
Cider gangs terrify residents
5 Jul 1978

RAMPAGING teenagers high on cider are terrifying residents in Poddle Park, Kimmage, according to Fianna Fail T.D. Gerard Brady today. He said that teenage cider parties on waste land in…

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What a caveman did to a quiet suburban road…
What a caveman did to a quiet suburban road…
5 Aug 1979

.. and complaints go unheeded IS IT any wonder our capital is a _disgusting sight when a suburban road is allowed to become a knacker’s yard for old cars? Poddle…

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7 horses dead after suspected poisoning
7 horses dead after suspected poisoning
3 Aug 1990

By DONAL MACINTYRE FIVE horses were put down and two died in a suspected poison attack at Poddle Park, in Kimmage. Dublin_, last night. Officers of the Dublin Society for…

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