On this day in 1984, the 11a Dublin Bus was hijacked by a man who had robbed a chemist earlier in the day.
The man had escaped a high-speed garda pursuit earlier in the day before he hijacked the Dublin Bus on Drumcondra Road.
Once the robber had gotten on the bus, he held a woman at knife-point for over two hours.
Approximately 10 people were stuck on the top floor of the double-decker bus while the incident took place.
One woman, speaking to RTE News described the hijacking as she saw it.
"There seemed to be a man walking down the road here and he got on the bus and there was just pandemonium," she told RTE reporter Linda Sherlock.
"We didn't know what has happening and some people got off downstairs and then the cars just seemed to come from everywhere."
When asked by the reporter if there was a lot of shouting, the woman said: " a little bit for about 10 minutes and then it calmed down."
The first 10 minutes were the worst for one passenger due to not knowing whether the hijacker had a gun but when she found that he had a knife, "we weren't really so frightened."
Another witness said that he managed to get on the bus "through the emergency door."
A third witness to the hijacking said a policeman stopped the hijacker from making his way to the upper deck.
After a period of negotiation with gardai, the hijacker was persuaded to hand over his knife and was escorted from the bus.
No one was harmed in the incident.
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