{"id":222927,"date":"2026-01-02T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222927\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:38:09","slug":"from-mayo-to-the-midlands-how-drug-intimidation-has-reached-rural-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222927\/","title":{"rendered":"From Mayo to the Midlands: how drug intimidation has reached rural Ireland"},"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\">Senior Mayo garda says drug-related intimidation is being significantly under-reported\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The scene of the house fire in Edenderry, Co Offaly, where Mary Holt (60) and her grandnephew Tadhg Farrell (4) died following an arson attack. Photo: Aisling Hyland\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5ad84ed2-c232-4c17-b07c-718e9127aef1.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)\">The scene of the house fire in Edenderry, Co Offaly, where Mary Holt (60) and her grandnephew Tadhg Farrell (4) died following an arson attack. Photo: Aisling Hyland\/PA<\/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)\">Drugs are in every town and village in the west of Ireland and so too is the threat and reality of drug intimidation.<\/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 Mayo, there were 11 reports of drug-related intimidation notified to Garda\u00ed in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Mayo garda says drug-related intimidation is being significantly under-reported The scene of the house fire in Edenderry,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,94087],"class_list":{"0":"post-222927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-oisin-mcgovern"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222927","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=222927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}