{"id":422444,"date":"2026-04-28T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422444\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:36:11","slug":"man-and-teen-arrested-after-firearm-incident-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422444\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and teen arrested after firearm incident in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A man in his 20s and a teenage boy have been arrested following a firearm incident in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed responded to reports of a firearm incident in Ballymun at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>The man in his 20s and a teenage boy were subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n<p>They are being detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939 in a garda station in the Dublin region.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of injuries in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Separately on Sunday, garda\u00ed from the Ballymun Drug Unit conducted proactive foot patrols in the Coultry Park area of Ballymun, as part of Operation Tara.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A gun found in Ballymun. Credit: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Dublin Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00244aa9-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe gun will undergo ballistic and forensic tests. Pic: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Dublin Facebook page<\/p>\n<p>During the course of a search within the park, garda\u00ed recovered a firearm concealed in a bush near the playground.<\/p>\n<p>The handgun was found with one round in the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The firearm will undergo ballistic and forensic examination.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made at this stage, but investigating garda\u00ed said they are &#8220;following a definite line of enquiry&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 20s and a teenage boy have been arrested following a firearm incident in Dublin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-422444","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\/422444","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=422444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}