{"id":142479,"date":"2025-11-16T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142479\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:07:09","slug":"residents-of-south-dublin-estate-baffled-as-over-40-cars-have-brakes-damaged-in-night-time-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142479\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of south Dublin estate \u2018baffled\u2019 as over 40 cars have brakes damaged in night-time attacks"},"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\">Vehicles have had wires damaged at an estimated cost of more than \u20ac40,000\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Resident Ray Ward uses mesh to protect his car\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/43026565-4df3-42ca-9c5f-2cbce28c40d7.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)\">Resident Ray Ward uses mesh to protect his car<\/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)\">In a small enclave in south county Dublin, what one woman describes as a \u201cfrightening\u201d series of events has left garda\u00ed and local people \u201cbaffled\u201d.<\/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)\">In the past few weeks over 40 cars have had vital braking system wires damaged, at an estimated cost of over \u20ac40,000. One electric car with just 37,014 kilometres on the clock had to be towed away as a write-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vehicles have had wires damaged at an estimated cost of more than \u20ac40,000 Resident Ray Ward uses mesh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,72,61,60,43288],"class_list":{"0":"post-142479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-liam-collins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142479","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=142479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}