{"id":475507,"date":"2026-05-31T01:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475507\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:56:14","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-attempted-murder-following-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475507\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing in Co Antrim.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim was stabbed in the chest and suffered head injuries in the incident in the Rodgers Quay area of Carrickfergus shortly after 7.30pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood to have happened during a motorcycle event.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson had earlier said a male suspect reportedly fled the scene on the back of a motorbike following an altercation.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, detectives investigating the incident arrested a 41-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon, following a search in the Newtownabbey area on Saturday May 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been taken into custody and will be interviewed in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing in Co Antrim. Police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-475507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475507","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=475507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}