{"id":138091,"date":"2025-11-13T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138091\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:14:08","slug":"manhunt-under-way-after-limerick-prisoner-escapes-while-attending-hospital-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138091\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt under way after Limerick prisoner escapes while attending hospital \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A manhunt is under way in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a> after a prisoner escaped custody while attending a hospital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">John Moloney (23) of South Claughaun Road, Garryowen, Limerick, has been on the run for 24 hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> He was one year into a 4\u00bd year sentence at Limerick Prison for arson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Moloney fled from prison officers while attending St John\u2019s Hospital for treatment to one of his hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda<\/a> manhunt is continuing to find Moloney who it is suspected was picked up in a vehicle by an accomplice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two separate investigations are under way into how he escaped. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A statement today from the Irish Prison Service  confirmed \u201cthat a prisoner has escaped from lawful custody while on escort to St Johns Hospital in Limerick yesterday afternoon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na were notified immediately and provided with all the relevant information in relation to the prisoner.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">  Garda\u00ed have also launched an investigation and are liaising with the prison service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Prison sources said the IPS investigation was centred around how Moloney managed to escape from the prison officers who accompanied him to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Moloney was jailed last November after pleading guilty to petrol bombing a house and damaging vehicles with a hurley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> His sentencing hearing at Limerick Circuit Court heard he threatened an injured party,  and told them, \u201cI\u2019m going to eradicate you\u201d, before attacking a car with a hurley stick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe threatened to \u2018kill him and his son\u2019. He was in a frenzy,\u201d prosecuting counsel John O\u2019Sullivan told the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The occupants of the house firebombed by Moloney and others were left terrified by the ordeal, the court heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manhunt is under way in Limerick after a prisoner escaped custody while attending a hospital on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,1396,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-138091","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-headlines","10":"tag-limerick","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\/138091","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=138091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}