{"id":494020,"date":"2026-06-11T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494020\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:22:08","slug":"man-70s-arrested-after-petrol-bomb-thrown-at-sligo-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494020\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 70s, arrested after petrol bomb thrown at Sligo pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after a petrol bomb was thrown at a pub in Sligo town last night.<\/p>\n<p>A fire broke out at Connolly&#8217;s pub on Holborn Street after the device was thrown at the entrance of the pub at around 11pm last night.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 70s has been arrested in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>There were customers inside when the fire broke out, however, no injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The area remains sealed off this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed have said investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after a petrol bomb was thrown at a pub in Sligo town last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-494020","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\/494020","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=494020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}