{"id":295560,"date":"2026-02-13T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295560\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:33:08","slug":"gardai-investigate-whether-convicted-criminal-who-recently-returned-to-ireland-ordered-longford-stabbings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295560\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigate whether convicted criminal who recently returned to Ireland \u2018ordered\u2019 Longford stabbings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The scene outside Longford Garda Station where a man in his 20s was found with &quot;serious&quot; stab wounds.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bee8f532-c966-4655-88c7-8c638698ad54.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 outside Longford Garda Station where a man in his 20s was found with &#8220;serious&#8221; stab wounds.<\/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)\">Garda\u00ed believe a convicted criminal who only recently returned to the country was the orchestrator in chief behind a violent double stabbing on Monday night that saw a Dublin based gang arrive into a midlands town.<\/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)\">Two men in their 30s and 20s were left with serious injuries following the savage double attack in Longford town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scene outside Longford Garda Station where a man in his 20s was found with &#8220;serious&#8221; stab wounds.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,23576,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-295560","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\/295560","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=295560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}