Gardai are investigating a number of burglaries in the Stepaside area this morning.
Shortly after 6am this morning, the windows and doors of a butchers, a vegetable shop and a chipper were smashed in the village. Sums of cash were taken from two of the premises.
Independent TD Shane Ross has tweeted to say the reopening of the Gardai station in Stepaside cannot come 'soon enough'.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Three shops robbed in one village this morning at 6.20am. Absolutely devastating! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Stepaside?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Stepaside</a> <a href="https://t.co/hNAL9X91su">pic.twitter.com/hNAL9X91su</a></p>— RIBA Stillorgan (@RibaStillorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/RibaStillorgan/status/1059714941375184896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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