Publican ‘rugby tackled’ man with plastic toy gun

A LIMERICK publican used his experience as a rugby player to crash tackle a man who burst into his crowded bar and threatened him with what turned out to be a toy gun.

Donal Mulcahy, who owns Rashers bar in Upper Gerald Griffin Street, told a District Court hearing that he feared for his life and that his hands and legs were shaking as Kieran Dunne pointed what appeared to be a real gun at him.

He said he grabbed a baseball bat and chased Dunne out the door, catching up with him as he was about to get up on his push bike to make a getaway.