Four men have been arrested after being rescued from a stolen boat in the River Liffey.
Gardai were alerted to reports of a boat being stolen from a rowing club at Ringsend shortly before midnight on Monday.
Emergency services rushed to the scene where they found a boat with four men stranded in the water.
Dublin Fire Brigade launched a full-scale river rescue and the four were brought safely to shore at North Wall Quay.
The four men, all in their late 20s, were arrested and brought to Irishtown Garda Station where they were detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.
All four have since been charged and released to appear before Dun Laoghaire District Court next month in relation to this matter.
A spokesperson for Dublin Fire Brigade said: "Water-rescue trained Firefighters, using one of rescue boats, towed four people to safety last night.
"The boat they were in drifted east of the Tom Clark East-Link bridge and in to the Dublin Port shipping channel. No injuries."
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