A brave garda who arrested one of the country’s most volatile criminals armed with a machine gun and an unpinned hand grenade has told how the terrifying incident crosses his mind every day.
Sgt Andrew O’Connor and two of his colleagues managed to take down Derek “Bottler” Devoy after he went AWOL in Ballymun, North Dublin, with a Makarov submachine gun in March 2019.
Devoy, who was later caged over the mayhem, was “inches” away from killing the gardai, his trial later heard.
