{"id":108706,"date":"2025-10-28T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108706\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:26:07","slug":"men-armed-with-gun-and-and-slash-hooks-storm-house-in-limerick-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/108706\/","title":{"rendered":"Men armed with gun and and slash hooks storm house in Limerick town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI are investigating the latest violent incident to occur in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rathkeale<\/a> in recent weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p>A number of men armed with a gun and wielding weapons including slash hooks, golf clubs and iron bars stormed a dwelling house in the early hours of this Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1925499\/limerick-woman-appears-in-court-accused-of-assaulting-garda-and-damaging-patrol-car.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick woman appears in court accused of assaulting garda and damaging patrol car<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is understood extensive damage was caused to the property. No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said: \u201cGarda\u00ed received a report of an incident of criminal damage that occurred at a domestic residence in Rathkeale on Tuesday, October 28 at approximately 12:45 am. Investigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest serious incident in and, in the vicinity, of Rathkeale in recent months. They include a camper van parked in the town being torched in an arson attack, a man being shot, an attempted chemical attack on a man in a pub and four houses being firebombed.<\/p>\n<p>The town\u2019s population will swell dramatically from next month as members of the Travelling community traditionally return home from Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local councillor, Adam Teskey has reiterated calls for extra gardai that he has made on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The Fine Gael councillor said \u201cnow, more than ever, we need more gardai\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDAI are investigating the latest violent incident to occur in Rathkeale in recent weeks and months. A number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,2177,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-108706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-county-limerick","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108706","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=108706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}