A garda was injured after being knocked down by an e-bike in west Dublin yesterday evening.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed from Blanchardstown were on patrol in Hartstown Park when they encountered a youth who was cycling erratically on an e-bike.<\/p>\n
They attempted to stop him but one officer was struck by the e-bike and suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The young man was arrested and taken to a garda station in Dublin.<\/p>\n
He has since been released without charge and a file will be prepared for the Garda National Youth Diversion Bureau.<\/p>\n
The local Garda Representative Association (GRA) representative Mark Ferris said “incidents like this are becoming all too common”.<\/p>\n
“I wish my colleague a full and speedy recovery from the injuries he sustained while doing exactly what the public expects of us, keeping the people of Blanchardstown safe,” he said. <\/p>\n
Mr Ferris said the garda required stitches.<\/p>\n
He said the “men and women of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na are entitled to carry out their duties without facing deliberate and targeted attacks”.<\/p>\n
Mr Ferris called on the Government to “confront the wider societal shift in Ireland in how garda\u00ed are treated and to ensure that assaults on garda\u00ed are met with a response that makes it absolutely and evidently clear that an attack on a garda is an attack on the State”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A garda was injured after being knocked down by an e-bike in west Dublin yesterday evening. Garda\u00ed from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-431976","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\/431976","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=431976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}