{"id":558259,"date":"2026-07-20T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/558259\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:01:10","slug":"man-in-hospital-after-reported-shooting-in-limerick-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/558259\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in hospital after reported shooting in Limerick \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are investigating the shooting of a man in Limerick City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, in his 60s, was shot in the upper body outside a house, at Hyde Road, around 4.30pm, Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed believe two masked and armed men traveling on bicycles pulled up out outside a house and fired a number of shots hitting the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man is being treated at University Hospital Limerick for gunshot wounds to his chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sources believe the shooting is linked to an ongoing feud between two rival criminal organisations based on the south side of the Treaty City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesman said: \u201cGarda\u00ed responded to reports of the discharge of a firearm at a premises on Hyde Road, Limerick, this afternoon, Sunday 19th July 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe incident occurred at approximately 4:30pm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA male aged in his 60s, was removed from the scene to University Hospital limerick to be treated for injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Gardai said the \u201cscene is currently held for examination\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating the shooting of a man in Limerick City. The man, in his 60s, was shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,1396,43],"class_list":["post-558259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558259","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=558259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}