{"id":300616,"date":"2026-02-16T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300616\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:34:08","slug":"teenager-seriously-injured-after-shooting-in-ballymun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300616\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager seriously injured after shooting in Ballymun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been seriously injured during a shooting in Ballymun, Dublin this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He was hospitalised for non-life threatening injuries after the incident in St Margaret&#8217;s Park.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene at around 12.35pm.<\/p>\n<p>The scene has been preserved for forensic examination.<\/p>\n<p>A Senior Investigating Officer has been appointed and an incident room established at Ballymun Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have appealed for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>They have asked for anyone with camera footage (including dash-cam) from the area between 11.30am and 1.30pm to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>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>Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager has been seriously injured during a shooting in Ballymun, Dublin this afternoon. He was hospitalised for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-300616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300616","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=300616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}