{"id":260831,"date":"2026-01-24T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260831\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:13:09","slug":"breaking-gunman-robs-two-laois-filling-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260831\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Gunman robs two Laois filling stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are investigating the armed robbery of two filling stations in Portarlington this evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understood the Maxol and Applegreen Filling stations on Main Street in Portlarlington were both targeted in armed robberies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leinsterexpress.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leinster Express\/Laois Live<\/a> understands the male was armed with what appeared to be a gun.\u00a0 Armed Garda\u00ed attended the\u00a0 \u00a0scene of the robberies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laois <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leinsterexpress.ie\/section\/728\/crime-court\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> said &#8220;Detective Garda\u00ed and Portarlington Garda are investigating two incidents of robbery where a lone male entered two service stations in Portarlington between 6.50pm and 7.10pm this evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe produced a weapon and stole quantities of cash from both locations. Garda are appealing for information and assistance from the public.\u00a0 If you passed by or were on Main Street, Portarlington this evening and witnessed anything suspicious please report it,\u201d Gardai said in a brief statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leinsterexpress.ie\/news\/portlaoise-\/1995986\/woman-woke-up-at-2am-and-saw-intruder-in-her-bedroom-in-laois.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woman woke at 2am to find intruder in her bedroom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information, dashcam or CCTV footage is asked to contact Portlaoise Garda Station on 057 867 4100.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating the armed robbery of two filling stations in Portarlington this evening.\u00a0 It\u2019s understood the Maxol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,129227,43,103731],"class_list":["post-260831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-laois-crime","tag-news","tag-portarlington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260831","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=260831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}