{"id":187493,"date":"2025-12-12T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187493\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:00:08","slug":"gardai-investigating-suspected-arson-after-cars-damaged-by-fire-in-dublin-8-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187493\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigating suspected arson after cars damaged by fire in Dublin 8 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> are investigating an incident of suspected arson after a number of vehicles were damaged by fire on the South Circular Road in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-8\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-8\/\">Dublin 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place at about 4.45am on Thursday morning and no injuries were reported.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">  . <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish Times understands the Garda investigation has made significant progress, including the identification of a clear suspect. Garda\u00ed suspect the man was intent on setting one vehicle on fire and that other cars parked beside it were also destroyed when the fire spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The  suspect appears to have set the fire  alone. He is well known to garda\u00ed locally for involvement in high volume crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed were on Thursday searching for him. Sources said it  would not be until garda\u00ed spoke to him and carried out further investigations that they could be certain of his motive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They believe the arson attack appears have gone wrong and the damage caused was much bigger than intended. Sources said there appears to be no link between the attack and the fact the Dublin Mosque is located very close by, also on South Circular Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating an incident of suspected arson after a number of vehicles were damaged by fire on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,615,63274,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-187493","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","10":"tag-dublin-8","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187493","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=187493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}