{"id":230314,"date":"2026-01-06T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:49:06","slug":"armed-gardai-called-in-following-incident-at-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230314\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed garda\u00ed called in following incident at station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed garda\u00ed and negotiators were called in following an incident at a Dublin garda station in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 4am, a man entered Blanchardstown Garda Station and threatened garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na initiated its Operational Command protocol and appointed an On-Scene Commander.<\/p>\n<p>Local garda negotiators from the National Negotiators Unit, along with the Armed Support Unit, attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A cordon was put in place and roads around the garda station were closed.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, a man was detained under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported and garda\u00ed said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed garda\u00ed and negotiators were called in following an incident at a Dublin garda station in the early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-230314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230314","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=230314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}