Two spectators have been injured in a incident which happened during a stage of the Donegal International Rally this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Race organisers say the accident happened during Stage 12 in the Gartan area.<\/p>\n
It is understood that both individuals were taken to Letterkenny University Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
The remaining two stages of the event were cancelled and a decision will be taken on Sunday’s stages later this evening.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed confirmed they are assisting medial personnel and event organisers after the incident.<\/p>\n
Earlier, it emerged that garda\u00ed had made 34 arrests as thousands of people descended on Co Donegal for the annual rally.<\/p>\n
A hi-visibility garda operation has been under way in the county since yesterday.<\/p>\n
The arrests were made between 7pm last night and 7am this morning.<\/p>\n
A total of 24 people were arrested for public order offences with six people arrested on suspicion of drink or drug driving.<\/p>\n
Two others were arrested for criminal damage and another under Section 23 of the Misuse of Drugs Act.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed say their operation will last until Monday with many officers based around Letterkenny, the focal point for the three-day rally event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two spectators have been injured in a incident which happened during a stage of the Donegal International Rally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-510103","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\/510103","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=510103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}