A man has been arrested following a stand-off in Coolock in Dublin overnight.

At around 2.30am gardaí were called to the Greencastle Road, where a man in his 20s threatened both officers and locals at gunpoint.

A gun did go off, but it was gardaí who fired the shot, and nobody was injured.

A man was later arrested and Chief Reporter with the Herald, Conor Feehan, says his firearm turned out to be a fake: