{"id":300291,"date":"2026-02-16T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300291\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:08:07","slug":"gardai-appeal-for-witnesses-after-teenager-shot-in-ballymun-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300291\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed appeal for witnesses after teenager shot in Ballymun \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses after a teenager sustained serious injuries in a shooting in Ballymun, north Dublin, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place before 12.35pm at St Margaret\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The adult male, aged in his late teens, sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to reports and attended the scene, which has been preserved for forensic examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior investigating officer has been appointed and an incident room established at Ballymun Garda station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward. Anyone who was in the area between 11.30am and 1.30pm with camera footage, including dash-cam footage, is asked to make it available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses after a teenager sustained serious injuries in a shooting in Ballymun, north Dublin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28566,61,60,1634,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-300291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-bob","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300291","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=300291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}