{"id":359221,"date":"2026-03-22T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359221\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:26:10","slug":"woman-20s-critically-injured-following-serious-assault-in-tipperary-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359221\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman (20s) critically injured following serious assault in Tipperary \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman (20s) is in a critical condition in hospital following a serious assault in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\">Tipperary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> have appealed for witnesses following the incident which happened just before 5.30pm on Saturday at the R494 road, Birdhill, Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman in her 20s, and originally from Limerick, was found with critical head injuries at the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The woman was airlifted by Coast Guard rescue helicopter to University Hospital Limerick where she was fighting for her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services responded to the incident in which a woman, aged in her 20s, was seriously injured. She was airlifted to hospital where she remains in a critical condition,\u201d said a Garda spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe scene remains preserved for a technical examination and the road remains closed with local diversions in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Appealing for witnesses, the spokeswoman said: \u201cAny road users who were on the R494 between Birdhill and the M7 motorway between 5pm and 6pm on Saturday, 21st March 2026 and may have camera footage (including dashcam) are asked to make this footage available to investigating Garda\u00ed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cInvestigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with any information is asked to contact Nenagh Garda station on (067) 50450, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/03\/21\/joan-delany-wife-of-olympian-ronnie-delany-dies-two-days-after-her-husbands-funeral\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Delany, wife of Olympian Ronnie Delany, dies two days after her husband\u2019s funeralOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman (20s) is in a critical condition in hospital following a serious assault in Tipperary. Garda\u00ed have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1346,42,1396,43,9123,40,38,41,39,17229],"class_list":["post-359221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-limerick","tag-news","tag-tipperary","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-university-hospital-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359221","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=359221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}