{"id":198224,"date":"2025-12-18T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198224\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:56:06","slug":"investigation-into-suspected-arson-attack-in-co-meath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198224\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into suspected arson attack in Co Meath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is under way into a suspected arson attack which caused extensive damage to a pharmacy in Co Meath.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have confirmed they are investigating an alleged criminal damage incident in Oldcastle.<\/p>\n<p>Local Sinn F\u00e9in TD Johnny Guirke said the fire at McQuaid&#8217;s pharmacy has &#8220;robbed a family of their ability to provide for themselves and their customers of a local, essential service they rely on daily&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He described Oldcastle as a great town and urged anyone with information on the incident to contact garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This cowardly act has no place in our town and must be unequivocally rejected by everyone who lives Oldcastle,&#8221; Mr Quirke said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is under way into a suspected arson attack which caused extensive damage to a pharmacy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-198224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198224","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=198224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}