{"id":395070,"date":"2026-04-12T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395070\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:01:09","slug":"man-arrested-over-alleged-attack-on-us-military-aircraft-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395070\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over alleged attack on US military aircraft \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A man in his 40s has been arrested for allegedly causing criminal damage to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/us\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/us\/\">US<\/a> military aircraft at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/shannon-airport-group\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/shannon-airport-group\/\">Shannon Airport<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">In a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na<\/a> said the man entered \u201can unauthorised area of Shannon Airport\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">He was arrested shortly before 11am and is currently being detained in a Garda station in the Clare-Tipperary Division. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Footage posted on social mediaon Saturday showed a man climbing aboard the wing of a US military aircraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">In the video, the figure attacks the wing of the plane with an object. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The incident caused the airport to close temporarily. In addition to garda\u00ed, airport police officers, Shannon Airport\u2019s fire and rescue service and members of the Defence Forces on duty at the airport responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">A spokesperson said Shannon Airport suspended operations for an incident which required garda assistance at approximately 9.50am on Saturday, before resuming at 10.15am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Garda\u00ed say investigations remain ongoing. <\/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\/world\/middle-east\/2026\/04\/12\/what-now-failure-of-iran-talks-leaves-trump-administration-facing-unpalatable-questions\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Now? Failure of Iran talks leaves Trump administration facing unpalatable questionsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 40s has been arrested for allegedly causing criminal damage to a US military aircraft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43,4504,90],"class_list":{"0":"post-395070","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-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-shannon-airport-group","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395070","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=395070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}