Garda\u00ed in Co Donegal are on high alert following an incident in Letterkenny yesterday in which a handgun is believed to have been produced.<\/p>\n
It is understood the weapon was produced during an altercation between two groups of men on a housing estate in the town.<\/p>\n
An argument ensued between the two groups when a number of men arrived at the Glenwood Park area of the town.<\/p>\n
A report has been made to garda\u00ed that a handgun was produced during this disagreement.<\/p>\n
The description of a car involved in the incident was made to local Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
In a follow-up operation, the car was reported to be on the back of a tow-truck being driven out of Letterkenny just before 11pm last night.<\/p>\n
Five Garda patrol cars, both marked and unmarked, rushed to the scene where it is understood the tow-truck was stopped.<\/p>\n
There are no reports of any arrests at this stage following the incident.<\/p>\n
A Garda spokesperson confirmed they are aware of the incident.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson confirmed “Garda\u00ed were alerted to an alleged incident at Glenwood Park, Letterkenny, Donegal on the evening of Saturday 2nd May, 2026 at approximately 5.30pm<\/p>\n
“A number of men arrived at the location and it is believed a handgun was sighted.<\/p>\n
“No persons injured or damage to property. Investigations ongoing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed in Co Donegal are on high alert following an incident in Letterkenny yesterday in which a handgun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-430165","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\/430165","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=430165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}