{"id":138862,"date":"2025-11-14T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138862\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:57:09","slug":"manhunt-underway-after-violent-prisoner-escapes-during-limerick-hospital-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138862\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt underway after violent prisoner escapes during Limerick hospital escort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A manhunt is underway for a violent prisoner who escaped from custody while being escorted to hospital in Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>John Moloney, aged 23, from Garryowen escaped while being escorted to St John\u2019s Hospital on Wednesday at around 3pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The prisoner is serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence in Limerick Prison for violent disorder, assault and criminal damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is understood he escaped a prison escort before being driven from the scene by someone known to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A spokesperson for the Irish Prison Service told the  Irish Examiner they are currently investigating the circumstances of the escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The spokesperson added: \u201cA prisoner has escaped from lawful custody while on escort to St John\u2019s Hospital in Limerick yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na were notified immediately and provided with all the relevant information in relation to the prisoner.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed confirmed they were also alerted to the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> \u201cAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na continues to liaise with the Irish Prison Service and investigations are ongoing,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manhunt is underway for a violent prisoner who escaped from custody while being escorted to hospital in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5658,61,60,43,1114],"class_list":["post-138862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138862","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=138862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}