{"id":487516,"date":"2026-06-07T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487516\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:27:08","slug":"man-in-60s-seriously-injured-in-laois-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487516\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in 60s seriously injured in Laois assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 60s has been seriously injured in an assault in Portarlington, Co Laois in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on Main Street at around 1.15am.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said the man has been brought to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. A man in his 40s has been arrested and is being held for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>They are asking anyone who was in the area between 12.45am and 1.30am and may have video footage, including dash cam footage, to contact them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s has been seriously injured in an assault in Portarlington, Co Laois in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-487516","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\/487516","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=487516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}