{"id":560135,"date":"2026-07-21T04:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:13:07","slug":"man-arrested-after-public-order-incident-in-co-louth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560135\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after public order incident in Co Louth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested by garda\u00ed after a public order incident in Co Louth.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at approximately 9.30pm at an open carpark in Dundalk where the man was alleged to be armed with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said a &#8220;less lethal force option&#8221; was deployed during the incident which involved uniformed garda\u00ed working alongside members of the Armed Support Unit.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, garda\u00ed said they had engaged with the man to try and de-escalate the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said the man did not comply and that &#8220;garda\u00ed from the Armed Support Unit discharged one round from a 40mm less-lethal force option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of this intervention, garda\u00ed were able to disarm the male,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The man has been arrested and is currently being detained at Dundalk Garda Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested by garda\u00ed after a public order incident in Co Louth. The incident occurred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-560135","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\/560135","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=560135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}