{"id":415201,"date":"2026-04-24T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415201\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:47:13","slug":"man-and-woman-arrested-after-two-gardai-assaulted-in-co-donegal-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415201\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman arrested after two garda\u00ed assaulted in Co Donegal \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man and woman have been arrested after two garda\u00ed were assaulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\">Co Donegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, aged in his 30s, allegedly assaulted the garda\u00ed after they were called to attend a premises on the Neil T Blaney Road in Letterkenny at about 3pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man and woman, also aged in her 30s, were arrested and detained under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 in a Garda station in Donegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The two male garda\u00ed were treated in hospital and have been discharged, a Garda spokesperson said on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is providing peer support to the injured garda\u00ed,\u201d the spokesperson said, adding investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man remains in custody, while the woman has been released and charged. She is due to appear before Letterkenny District Court in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Brendan O\u2019Connor, Garda Representative Association (GRA) executive committee representative for Donegal commended the \u201cthe courage and dedication\u201d of his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI wish them a speedy recovery,\u201d the former GRA president said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident renews the association\u2019s calls for further equipment and training for members of the force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThere is room for improvement in terms of equipment technology and training all of which need to be further examined.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and woman have been arrested after two garda\u00ed were assaulted in Co Donegal. The man, aged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-415201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415201","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=415201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}