{"id":471240,"date":"2026-05-28T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471240\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:16:08","slug":"customers-told-to-turn-off-tvs-immediately-as-6200-recalled-due-to-fire-safety-risk-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/471240\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers told to turn off TVs immediately as 6,200 recalled due to fire safety risk \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">More than 6,000 televisions have been recalled by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/competition-and-consumer-protection-commission-ccpc\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/competition-and-consumer-protection-commission-ccpc\/\">Competition and Consumer Protection Commission<\/a> (CCPC) due to a fire safety risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Recall notices were issued for 6,206 Toshiba, Technika and Walker televisions that were sold between October 2025 and April of this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The CCPC said a safety issue has been identified with the fuse within certain power plugs of the sets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe product presents a fire risk because the fuse inside the supplied UK power plug may not operate correctly,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIf an electrical fault occurs, the fuse may fail to disconnect the power supply, allowing electricity to continue flowing into the TV, which could lead to overheating or fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The product safety issue relates to the mains plug fuse and not to the television unit itself, the CCPC added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Customers have been advised to stop using the television immediately, switch it off and unplug it from the mains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They can also contact the consumer electrical goods firm Glen Dimplex to obtain a free replacement fuse or power cable on (01) 842 8222 or at serviceireland@glendimplex.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 6,000 televisions have been recalled by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) due to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,11756,61,60],"class_list":["post-471240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-competition-and-consumer-protection-commission-ccpc","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471240","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=471240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}