{"id":389708,"date":"2026-04-09T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389708\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:03:07","slug":"defence-forces-clarify-why-armoured-vehicles-are-on-the-streets-of-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389708\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Forces clarify why armoured vehicles are on the streets of Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Defence Forces have clarified this Thursday morning why armoured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/575\/motoring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">vehicles<\/a> have been spotted on the streets of Limerick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for the Defence Forces, The 28th Infantry Battalion are on a training exercise ahead of a visit to Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/motoring\/2056854\/we-re-losing-livelihoods-fuel-price-protest-continues-in-limerick-with-major-traffic-delays.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;We&#8217;re losing livelihoods&#8217;: Fuel price protest continues in Limerick with major traffic delays<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of speculation across Limerick city and county this Thursday morning after vehicles were spotted in Ballyneety and in Limerick city, Roxboro area.<\/p>\n<p>There was also speculation online that they were going out to Foynes but according to the Defence Forces this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Forces have said they are aware of images circulating of MOWAG Armoured Personnel Carriers in convoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that these are the personnel of the 128th Infantry Battalion conducting mission readiness exercises ahead of deployment to UNIFIL next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mission Readiness Exercises are critical activities to train and prepare our personnel for conducting duties in Southern Lebanon,&#8221; stated the Defence Forces.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Defence Forces have clarified this Thursday morning why armoured vehicles have been spotted on the streets of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13308,42,1396,44,43,29888,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-389708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-defence-forces","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-limerick","11":"tag-limerick-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-roxboro","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389708","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=389708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}