Man points sawn-off shotgun at pub customers and staff

TERRIFIED customers and staff at a Dublin pub had to run for cover last Saturday night when an armed man stormed into the bar wielding a sawn-off shotgun.

The man pointed the gun at customers and staff and threatened to shoot, but he was disarmed by gardaí who arrived within minutes of receiving a phone call.

The gunman, aged 20, had been refused entry into The Swallows pub in Clondalkin, west Dublin, at around 7.30pm on Saturday.