{"id":560380,"date":"2026-07-21T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560380\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:51:13","slug":"gardai-disarm-and-arrest-man-with-knife-in-dundalk-co-louth-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560380\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed disarm and arrest man with knife in Dundalk, Co Louth \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed <\/a>have arrested a man in Dundalk, Co Louth, after he was spotted carrying a knife in public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place at a car park at about 9.30pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Uniformed garda\u00ed, backed by members of the Armed Support Unit, engaged with the man and directed him to drop the knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">When he refused, they fired one shot from a \u201c40mm less-lethal force option\u201d and he was disarmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, who is in his 30s, was arrested at the scene and taken to Dundalk Garda station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is due to appear before Drogheda District Court on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Garda spokesman said he received appropriate medical treatment in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Garda said the discharge of a less-lethal device has been notified to the Office of the Police Ombudsman (Fiosr\u00fa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have arrested a man in Dundalk, Co Louth, after he was spotted carrying a knife in public.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-560380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560380","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=560380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}