{"id":488483,"date":"2026-06-08T04:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488483\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:44:14","slug":"man-60s-treated-for-serious-injuries-following-assault-in-co-laois-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488483\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (60s) treated for serious injuries following assault in Co Laois \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 60s was brought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/beaumont-hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/beaumont-hospital\/\">Beaumont Hospital<\/a> in Dublin with serious injuries after an assault in the early hours of Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> have appealed for witnesses following the attack that occurred on Main Street, Portarlington, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\">Co Laois<\/a>, at about 1.15am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 40s was arrested and was being held in custody under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have asked for witnesses, or anyone who may have camera footage from the area taken between 12.45am and 1.30am, to make contact. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information has been asked to contact Portlaoise Garda station on (057) 867 4100, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60s was brought to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin with serious injuries after an assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,8285,43],"class_list":["post-488483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-laois","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488483","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=488483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}