{"id":401857,"date":"2026-04-16T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:16:07","slug":"gardai-in-monaghan-looking-for-man-who-rammed-patrol-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401857\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed in Monaghan looking for man who rammed patrol car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are searching for the driver of a car that rammed a garda patrol car in Co Monaghan, injuring two garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>A sergeant and a garda were taken to hospital after a Northern Ireland-registered Audi rammed the garda car at Tullycorbett at around 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>Two men fled the scene, but the man believed to be the passenger was arrested shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>He is also suspected of having been involved in an earlier attack on a garda this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who is in his 20s, was stopped and spoken to by plainclothes garda\u00ed on patrol in Co Monaghan at around 11.30am.<\/p>\n<p>He became violent and attacked the garda\u00ed, injuring one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The driver who garda\u00ed are searching for is described as being aged in his 20s, medium height and build, wearing a dark grey tracksuit top and grey tracksuit bottoms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The scene of the ramming\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00243bc0-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nA road in Tullycorbet sealed off by garda\u00ed this evening<\/p>\n<p>Both garda\u00ed in the patrol car, a male and a female, were taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda for assessment of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information or sighting of the man is asked to contact the garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>The Garda Representative Association said the incidents once again act &#8220;as a stark and terrifying reminder&#8221; of the dangers that garda\u00ed face on a daily basis while going about their duty.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy General Secretary James Morris Roe said his thoughts were with the injured garda\u00ed and their families.<\/p>\n<p>He wished the garda\u00ed a full recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are searching for the driver of a car that rammed a garda patrol car in Co Monaghan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-401857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401857","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=401857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}