{"id":432209,"date":"2026-05-04T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:06:10","slug":"garda-injured-after-being-struck-by-e-bike-in-co-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432209\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda injured after being struck by e-bike in Co Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A garda suffered minor injuries after they were hit by an e-bike in Blanchardstown, Co Dublin, on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed were on patrol in Hartstown Park when they encountered a teenage boy driving erratically on an e-bike.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed attempted to stop the youth, and in doing so, a member of an Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na was struck by said driver, knocking him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The member of an Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the e-bike was arrested at the scene and taken to a Garda Station in Dublin, where he was detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been released without charge, and a file will be prepared for the Garda National Youth Diversion Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A garda suffered minor injuries after they were hit by an e-bike in Blanchardstown, Co Dublin, on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-432209","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\/432209","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=432209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}