{"id":103082,"date":"2025-10-25T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103082\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:45:09","slug":"the-new-garda-tools-and-tactics-that-helped-quell-citywest-riots-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/103082\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Garda tools and tactics that helped quell Citywest riots quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">New water cannon \u2018put the fear of God into troublemakers\u2019Stronger pepper spray than 2023 was a \u2018game-changer\u2019Tactical movements to arrest agitators also cited as key factor\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda\u00ed block protesters near the Citywest Hotel in Saggart earlier this week. Photo: Niall Carson\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IRISH Hotel  2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Garda\u00ed block protesters near the Citywest Hotel in Saggart earlier this week. Photo: Niall Carson\/PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Over the course of two nights this week outside the Citywest complex in Saggart, frontline garda\u00ed fended off a barrage of attacks from rioters intent on causing mayhem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What began as a protest over the alleged sexual assault of a child at the site soon descended into violence with the demonstration infiltrated by thugs seizing the opportunity to attack garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New water cannon \u2018put the fear of God into troublemakers\u2019Stronger pepper spray than 2023 was a \u2018game-changer\u2019Tactical movements&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,46333,61,60,43,31620],"class_list":{"0":"post-103082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-dublin-riots","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-robin-schiller"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}