M50 chase ends with children unhurt and two arrested

A Garda spokesperson said that at 4pm a car failed to stop for officers investigating reports of an alleged theft from a pharmacy

The car - which had two adults and two children inside - fled from a garda unit at Dundrum Shopping Centre heading for the M50, where a managed containment operation was in place. File Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Two people have been arrested after a car chase along the M50 following an alleged theft and two young children as rear-seat passengers. 

A Garda patrol vehicle was also damaged as the car was finally intercepted, having driven from Dundrum in south Dublin all the way to Ballymun on the northside of the capital.