Man threatens to kill himself at Garda Ombudsman office

Mental health staff have intervened to help an agitated man who threatened to kill himself at the officers of the Garda Ombudsman yesterday.

Gardaí removed the Eastern European man from the watchdog’s offices in central Dublin after managers there rang 999 at about 9.30am.

The man, thought to be homeless and in his 20s, walked into the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s building at Upper Abbey Street and told reception he wanted to make a complaint aboutgardaí.