Staff at an Ennis shop had to contend with a traumatic incident after one worker was threatened with a knife.
At approximately 6:05pm last Tuesday, a lone male entered the Gala Shop on Cloughleigh Rd in Ennis wearing a balaclava over his face and carrying a knife.
He demanded the staff member to open the cash register but he couldn’t open it – this male then took a number of packets of cigarettes and left on a bike in the direction of the Lahinch Road.
“This was a traumatic incident for the staff member but he wasn’t physically injured,” Crime Prevention Officer at Ennis Garda Station, Triona Brooks stated.
Later in the same evening Gardaí from Ennis Garda Station executed a search warrant at a house in Ennis and a male in his late 20’s was arrested and detained at Ennis Garda Station.
On Thursday (August 12th), he was brought in custody before Ennis District Court and was remanded in custody to Limerick Prison.
