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<\/p>\nAttack took place in woman\u2019s home<\/p>\n
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Stock image of a pit bull dog<\/p>\n
A woman has suffered serious head and facial injuries following an attack by a pitbull terrier in her own home.<\/p>\n
The woman is understood to have been attacked shortly after 2pm in her home in Carlow town.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood the woman owned two dogs \u2013 one of which turned on her.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene which has been preserved to allow for a technical examination.<\/p>\n
In a statement, garda\u00ed said the woman is being treated in hospital for serious injuries.<\/p>\n
They said the dog is believed to be a restricted breed and has since been put down.<\/p>\n
“Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended following reports of a dog attack at a residential property in Carlow Town this afternoon, Tuesday 30th December 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cA woman, aged in her late 50s, has been removed from the scene by air ambulance to the Mater Hospital Dublin, for treatment of injuries believed to be serious.<\/p>\n
“The services of the Dog Warden were requested and the dog was euthanised by a vet at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dog is believed to be of a restricted breed.\u201d<\/p>\n
New figures released last week showed 73 XL Bully dogs have been put down around the country since a ban on the breed came into effect last February.<\/p>\n
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Stock image of a pit bull dog<\/p>\n
Today’s News in 90 Seconds – Tuesday, Dec 30 <\/p>\n
The XL Bully became a controversial breed after a number of attacks on people, with several dogs subsequently seized and put down.<\/p>\n
In order to deal with the safety issue, strict controls were introduced to ensure the breed would be controlled and eventually die out.<\/p>\n
Fingal in Dublin, Limerick, Louth, and Cork county had the most XL Bully dogs put down in the last year.<\/p>\n
In October last year, when the new legislation was announced, the importing, breeding, selling and re-homing of the dogs was banned, and owners were given time to apply for certificates of exemption for pets they already owned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attack took place in woman\u2019s home Stock image of a pit bull dog A woman has suffered serious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,60422,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-219436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-news-in-90-seconds","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\/219436","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=219436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}