{"id":299954,"date":"2026-02-15T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299954\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:44:06","slug":"teen-sustains-serious-injuries-following-ballymun-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299954\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen sustains serious injuries following Ballymun shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager sustained serious injuries after a shooting in Ballymun on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following the incident, which occurred at around 12:35pm.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to reports of a shooting incident at St Margaret\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, garda\u00ed said: &#8220;An adult male, aged in his late teens, sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries during the incident and was transported by ambulance to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scene has been preserved for forensic examination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Senior Investigating Officer has been appointed and an incident room established at Ballymun Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who may have camera footage (including dash-am) and was in the area of St Margaret\u2019s Park between 11:30am and 1:30pm is asked to make this material available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone with information is asked to contact Ballymun Garda Station on 01 666 4400, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigations are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager sustained serious injuries after a shooting in Ballymun on Sunday. Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-299954","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-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299954","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=299954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}