{"id":419904,"date":"2026-04-27T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:56:09","slug":"vicious-father-and-son-hospitalised-in-slash-hook-attack-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419904\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Vicious&#8217;: Father and son hospitalised in slash hook attack in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A FATHER and son were hospitalised with injuries following an attack involving a reported slash hook over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> Live has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged assault took place in the Ballinacurra Weston area of Limerick city around 1pm on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The seriousness of the injuries suffered by the man and teenage boy is not known but it is understood they are not life threatening.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/motoring-news\/2070413\/breaking-what-more-can-this-family-take-limerick-cousin-of-scarlett-and-jason-faulkner-seriously-injured.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BREAKING: \u2018What more can this family take?\u2019: Limerick cousin of Scarlett and Jason Faulkner seriously injured<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is thought that a large number of uniform and plainclothes gardai quickly responded to reports of a \u201cdisturbance\u201d in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, all parties had left the scene upon arrival and Limerick Live understands that no formal complaint has been made by the injured parties to An Garda Siochana at this time.<\/p>\n<p>One well-placed source said: \u201cThis was vicious stuff in the middle of the day. I don\u2019t know the background to the dispute. Tensions are very high in the area. Somebody is going to be seriously hurt or worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A FATHER and son were hospitalised with injuries following an attack involving a reported slash hook over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,1396,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-419904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-limerick","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\/419904","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=419904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}