Act of ‘stupidity’ caused Dublin train station security alert as man selling antique rifle failed to cover it properly, well our Gardai are not Known, for Too many Brain Cells, if we face the Facts?

THE man arrested on board a train with an antique gun after causing a major security alert acted out of pure “stupidity and naivety”, senior sources said.

He had been travelling to Dublin on Wednesday evening on a rail service carrying a decommissioned rifle which he was going to sell.

The man in his 50s was arrested at the scene and later releasedHowever the man – who boarded in Kildare – did not have the firearm concealed appropriately and a panicked fellow commuter who could see it was a gun rang 999.

It sparked a huge security alert at Connolly train station, which was swarmed by gardai and armed officers before the train arrived and they searched it.

A source told us: “A call was made by someone else on the train because the rifle wasn’t concealed properly.

“There was a massive response to Connolly Station because the gardai simply did not know what they were dealing with at that stage.