Yes the guards were quick on the scene, yes the guards arrested someone quickly but give it a break on thinking its because the house belongs to a minister. It says in the news that the burglar was disturbed by an alarm and a neighbour witnessed the burglar and identified him to gardai a short distance away. The guards happened to be patrolling nearby and were just lucky. But don’t make that bit of luck into something it’s not. The fact its a Ministers house is irrelevant but that’s the only reason it made the news. It was just another burglary and he got caught. No doubt ye’d be happier to hear no one was caught.

Gerard you house was broken into by a well know criminal herein lies the problem.
Almost all crimes are committed by a scumbag with multiply convictions. Lock these people up and give decent people a break.

Typical idiots making idiotic remarks on this site, the guards catch 2 burglars and somehow the guards are still in the wrong. My house was burgled approx 2 years ago, guards kept me well informed on what was happening, about 6 weeks after it happened they got a fingerprint match to a well known burglar in my area and the lad admitted 14 more burglaries, he was charged and got a prison sentence, but as some previous comment mentioned, maybe the nay Sayers would be happiest if nobody was caught which would give more opportunity to slate the guards?

I wonder if they be so fast with charges if that was my house :)

I wouldn’t wait for the garda I shoot the b*****ds before hand then call them !!! And maybe an ambulance

We had a complete psycho try and smash though our door, quite similar to Jack Nicholson in the Shining, I rang ’999′ and didn’t see any Gardai for 8 hours. The Psycho cut himself trying to get through our door, left an almost empty bottle of gin behind, Gardai took fingerprints and blood samples when they finally did arrive, that was two years ago, we have heard nothing since. I did complain to the Ombudsman and someone was reprimanded. Swift justice depends on your postcode.

Paddys day trip to australia? I’m sure that was beneficial to us taxpayers. Nice work if u can get it…

Really hope they got something on him. He has to have left a trail somewhere.

You have to laugh at the speed of this case,if that wss me or you we would be still waiting on the garda to arrive.
The fact that they arrested a second man too makes you wonder..

Getting your house robbed is very unsettling and frightening for many. Not to be wished in anyone.

Though if we pan out a wee bit we are still waiting for the baron robbers of Anglo to be rounded up. Luckily our government has decided that its pretty stupid to pay public money on private debts incurred by an organisation that is being investigated for the biggest fraud in the history of the state.

That €3,100,000,000 that was to be taken out of our collective wealth can now be put to good use instead of being burned. At last a Justice minister with a sensible take on justice.

Meanwhile back on Planet Earth……….

He shouldn’t have been in Australia in the first place, and if he had been at home he wouldn’t have been robbed, even though I think that a burglary is a very stressful thing to happen to anybody. The guards were so quick to arrest a man for breaking in to a minister’s house, and it is a pity that they are not so quick to a.rrest Fitzpatrick and co from Anglo.

@Richie Quigley eh why did it take over a day to arrest two people then? Did you think of that? We have a jim corr on board folks….