{"id":308575,"date":"2026-02-20T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308575\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:16:12","slug":"frightening-incident-woman-in-her-eighties-had-her-car-robbed-on-a-busy-limerick-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308575\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Frightening incident&#8217;: Woman in her eighties had her car robbed on a busy Limerick road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in her eighties experienced a \u201cfrightening incident\u201d on the Ennis Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Limerick.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crime Prevention Officer at Henry Street Garda Station, Sergeant Michelle O Halloran said: \u201cat approximately 8.20pm, a woman in her eighties was stopped at the traffic lights at Union Cross on the Ennis Road when a male approached her vehicle, opened the passenger door and took her handbag from the passenger seat before leaving the area on foot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sergeant appealed for any witnesses who may have observed anyone acting suspiciously at the Ennis Road at 8.20 pm on February 10 to come forward to garda\u00ed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/home\/2017299\/car-overturns-during-multiple-vehicle-collision-in-middle-of-limerick-town.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Car overturns during multiple-vehicle collision in middle of Limerick town<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ms O Halloran gave the following advice to the public to deter criminals: \u201cKeep handbags and valuables out of sight \u2014 ideally in the boot \u2014 and remain aware of your surroundings at\u00a0junctions and pedestrian crossings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a reminder to motorists to always lock their doors, even when stopped in traffic or pedestrian crossings.\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":"A woman in her eighties experienced a \u201cfrightening incident\u201d on the Ennis Road, Limerick.\u00a0 Crime Prevention Officer at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,26809,61,60,1396,44,43,16206],"class_list":{"0":"post-308575","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-ennis","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick","13":"tag-limerick-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-roads"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308575","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=308575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}