{"id":261401,"date":"2026-01-24T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261401\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:01:12","slug":"man-40s-accused-of-entering-pub-and-vowing-to-cut-managers-head-off-with-a-chainsaw-denied-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261401\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (40s) accused of entering pub and vowing to cut manager\u2019s \u2018head off\u2019 with a chainsaw denied bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darren Murray outside Athlone Courthouse.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fff3d0b8-5f85-44e1-9ea3-973881e13d72.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)\">Darren Murray outside Athlone Courthouse.<\/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)\">A man accused of walking into a midlands pub armed with a chainsaw had to be restrained by staff after vowing to \u201cdecapitate\u201d the bar manager, a court has heard.<\/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)\">Darren Murray (45) of Coolevin Park, Coosan, Athlone, Westmeath was denied bail at a sitting of Athlone District Court more than seven weeks after first going into custody following the alleged incident at Peddler Mac\u2019s, Church Street, Athlone, Westmeath on November 30, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Murray outside Athlone Courthouse. A man accused of walking into a midlands pub armed with a chainsaw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,23576,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-261401","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-liam-cosgrove","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261401","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=261401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}