{"id":293668,"date":"2026-02-12T05:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293668\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:49:11","slug":"washed-up-unusual-break-in-at-laundry-machine-leaves-more-questions-than-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293668\/","title":{"rendered":"Washed up: &#8216;Unusual&#8217; break-in at laundry machine leaves more questions than answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for information on an attempted break-in at a self-service laundry machine at the Courtfield Shopping Centre in Raheen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred early on Wednesday, between the hours of 3 am and 8.30 am, February 4.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whoever was behind the incident, caused \u201cquite a bit of damage trying to do it\u201d, according to Sergeant Aoife Bannon from the Community Policing unit at Henry Street Garda Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2011749\/major-development-in-the-trial-of-limerick-man-accused-of-giving-a-detective-20k-for-information-on-cab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Major development in the trial of Limerick man accused of giving a detective \u20ac20k for information on CAB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sergeant said: \u201cThankfully, whoever was responsible didn\u2019t manage to get into the cash box, but they did cause quite a bit of damage trying to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The garda continued: \u201cWe are appealing to anyone who has any information or noticed<\/p>\n<p>anything unusual in the area to please contact Roxboro Road Garda Station or<\/p>\n<p>the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>-Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme <\/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 appealing for information on an attempted break-in at a self-service laundry machine at the Courtfield Shopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,1396,44,43,1895],"class_list":{"0":"post-293668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-limerick","12":"tag-limerick-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-raheen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293668","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=293668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}