{"id":468027,"date":"2026-05-26T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:07:08","slug":"child-and-two-adults-fired-at-in-limerick-drive-by-shooting-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468027\/","title":{"rendered":"Child and two adults fired at in Limerick drive-by shooting \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A shooter narrowly missed a young boy and two adults, after firing a number of shots at a house in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Limerick<\/a> where the three bystanders were standing outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The drive-by gun attack, which was captured on CCTV footage on Hyde Road, Limerick, at 10.30am last Friday, May 22nd, was shared across social media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> suspect the attack is connected to an ongoing feud between rival organised crime groups  based on the south side of Limerick city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CCTV footage of the shooting shows a boy and two adults  ducking for cover as a number of bullets appear to be fired from a dark-coloured car as it passes the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As the three bystanders duck behind a wall, a number of bullets appear to strike the wall and side of the house, leaving dust puffs from the impact of the bullets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesman said: \u201cGarda\u00ed responded to reports of shots fired outside a residential property in Ballinacurra Weston, Limerick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cNo injuries were reported. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d added the Garda spokesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooter narrowly missed a young boy and two adults, after firing a number of shots at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,1396,43],"class_list":["post-468027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468027","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=468027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}