{"id":53040,"date":"2025-09-30T15:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53040\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:54:06","slug":"update-gardai-investigate-gun-attack-at-limerick-halting-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53040\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Gardai investigate gun attack at Limerick halting site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI have confirmed they are investigating a shooting incident in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Natasha Walsh, of Henry Street garda station, appealed for witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1906483\/man-charged-over-violent-incident-in-limerick-town-to-face-circuit-court-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Man charged over violent incident in Limerick town to face circuit court trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGarda\u00ed are investigating a serious incident involving a firearm which occurred on the Childers Road in the early hours of Tuesday morning,\u201d said Sgt Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Live understands the gun attack took place in the vicinity of a halting site. No injuries have been reported. It is thought that properties were shot up.<\/p>\n<p>A scene has been cordoned off on the Childers Road amid a major garda operation this Tuesday. Around a dozen garda patrol cars responded to the location.<\/p>\n<p>A video has been widely shared on social media which shows squad cars parked up on both sides of the road and garda forensics officers taking photographs.<\/p>\n<p>The area is being preserved for technical analysis by garda tape.<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Live believes that a joint An Garda Siochana \/\u00a0 Department of Social Protection operation was planned for the location on the Childers Road this Tuesday morning and the shooting incident was a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Walsh asks any members of the public who were in the vicinity of the Childers Road shopping centre between midnight and 2am and noticed anything suspicious to come forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, if you were passing the area during those times we would ask you to check your dash- cam footage, and contact Henry Street Garda Station on 061-212400,\u201d said Sgt Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information can also contact\u00a0the\u00a0Garda\u00a0Confidential\u00a0Line on 1800 666 111, or any\u00a0garda\u00a0station.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDAI have confirmed they are investigating a shooting incident in Limerick city overnight. Sergeant Natasha Walsh, of Henry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,44,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-53040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-limerick-city","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53040","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=53040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}