{"id":423416,"date":"2026-04-29T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:46:26","slug":"man-charged-in-connection-with-serious-assault-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423416\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in connection with serious assault in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/live95-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Live95 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/62e2a9c69b4ba.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The man in his 20s was arrested yesterday.\n        <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">A man is due to appear in court this morning following a serious assault in Limerick City that has left a prominent local artist with life-changing injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The incident, which occurred on the Old Cratloe Road on March 28th, involved well-known hip-hop dancer and breaker Tobi Omoteso.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Tobi was travelling to set up for the Top 8 Street Dance &amp; Hip-hop Fest when he was the victim of an assault which left him blind in one eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">More than 70,000 euro has been raised to help pay for his medical bills and future surgeries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Gardai arrested a man in his 20s yesterday as part of their investigation into the assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69ccff3b11637.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Garda\u00ed confirmed that a male in his 20s was arrested yesterday as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">He has since been charged and is due to appear before Limerick District Court at this Wednesday, April 29th.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=49bb71e2-4823-448e-b0e8-311158962de3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f76f434.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Live95 News The man in his 20s was arrested yesterday. A man is due to appear in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612],"class_list":["post-423416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-radio","tag-limerick-today","tag-limericks-live95fm","tag-live-95","tag-live95fm","tag-live95fm-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423416","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=423416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}