{"id":444185,"date":"2026-05-12T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444185\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:17:13","slug":"four-held-in-custody-over-galway-mosque-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444185\/","title":{"rendered":"Four held in custody over Galway mosque plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four men have been remanded in continuing custody over an alleged plot to attack a mosque in Co Galway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2026\/0319\/1564253-galway-mosque\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The men have been charged with an attempt to engage in terrorist-linked activity.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are: Darren Gorman, 34, of O&#8217;Moore Place, Portlaoise, Co Laois; Charles Flynn, 35, of Castlerock Avenue, Castleconnell, Co Limerick; Garrett Pollock, 35, of Kilhorne Green, Annalong, Co Down; and Karolis Peckauskas, 38, of Newfoundwell Road, Drogheda, Co Louth.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Peckauskas and Mr Pollock are also charged with offences relating to the possession of weapons and an explosive substance.<\/p>\n<p>They appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today with a view to setting a trial date.<\/p>\n<p>They were all remanded in continuing custody until 8 June as the court heard there could be &#8220;potential progress&#8221; in relation to two of the men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four men have been remanded in continuing custody over an alleged plot to attack a mosque in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-444185","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\/444185","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=444185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}