A man has been arrested after damaging cameras on Dublin's M50 toll bridge.
The motorway was temporarily closed, and damages and revenue losses from the toll could reportedly amount to €100,000 (£87,000).
Gardai negotiated with the 48-year-old man who eventually left the gantry before being arrested.
In a video uploaded to Facebook, a man can be heard saying: "All traffic northbound on the M50 is toll-free. It's toll-free for as long as I can hold them off. Blow your horn if you see me. Look up at the meters, they're not on."
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The video caused a mixed reaction on social media with one person saying: "That M50 is well paid for now. It's just a fucking robbery to the people, fair play to this man. I'm going to drive up and down it all day."
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Others were less impressed: "So really what you done there was stopped people paying €3.90 and instead wasted taxpayers' money getting the emergency services out to fix that."
Another wrote: "Nice one, was stuck on M50 for ages last night trying to get home to my family having been at work all day, couldn't get off the N4 exit to get to M3 so had to go miles up the road and into Clondalkin to get back, all for what?"
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A statement from the operators toll system read: "Transport Infrastructure Ireland and eFlow would like to thank the Emergency Services for their assistance with this unusual event and are relieved that nobody was hurt.
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"eFlow engineering and maintenance personnel are currently on site to assess and repair any damage and to prevent any possible similar incidents occurring again."
Source: Independent
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