{"id":465091,"date":"2026-05-24T17:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465091\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:51:13","slug":"brazen-gardai-continue-to-probe-broad-daylight-gun-attack-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465091\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brazen&#8217;: Gardai continue to probe broad daylight gun attack in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> continue to investigate a shooting incident on the southside of Limerick city.<\/p>\n<p>The gun attack on a property was carried out in broad daylight on Friday morning. The brazen perpetrators discharged a firearm despite ongoing patrols by uniformed and armed gardai due to tensions in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai responded within minutes and cordoned off the area for forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p>It is being linked to an ongoing feud between two separate groupings, which has seen a number of arson and gun attacks in recent months in Limerick city.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/music\/2086319\/a-week-from-hell-tommy-fleming-ends-limerick-gig-after-two-songs-due-to-flu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018A week from hell\u2019: Tommy Fleming ends Limerick gig after two songs due to flu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following a query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson confirmed that garda\u00ed responded to reports of shots fired outside a residential property in Ballinacurra Weston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was at approximately 10:30am on Friday, May 23. No injuries were reported. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that a window of a house was shot in.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists who were on the Hyde Road, Ballinacurra Weston at the time and may have dash-cam or mobile photo footage of the incident or of suspicious activity are asked to make this available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Roxboro garda station on (061) 214340 , the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDAI in Limerick continue to investigate a shooting incident on the southside of Limerick city. The gun attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,54319,61,60,44,43],"class_list":["post-465091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ballinacurra-weston","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-city","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465091","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=465091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}