Raiders wielding gun and meat cleaver challenged by publican

A brave publican has spoken about how he stood in front of an armed robber who was pointing a gun straight at him and “called his bluff,” by challenging him to shoot him.

This was after the gunman had loaded a cartridge into the gun in front of him and customers.

Liam Hodson, 51, was serving behind the bar at the Marsh House pub in Drogheda when two men came, one with “a double barrel shotgun and the other had a meat cleaver”.