{"id":561531,"date":"2026-07-21T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561531\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:03:08","slug":"five-arrested-following-major-public-order-incident-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561531\/","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested following major public order incident in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five youths have been arrested following a major public order incident in Virginia tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Sound FM understands all five have been arrested and detained over an alleged assault that occurred after 7.30pm this evening.<\/p>\n<p>A significant number of Gardai were swiftly on the scene of the incidents at both Lough Ramor and the Main Street of the town.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Sound FM also understands that a man was allegedly attacked by a number of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>A Garda source confirmed that a number of individuals (males) required medical attention following this incident and are believed to have been taken to Cavan General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses say the man was set upon by at least 4 people and the condition of the man that was allegedly assaulted is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai are present in Virginia following the incident in the town tonight as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>All five are being held in Garda stations in the county tonight.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement tonight, a Garda spokesperson said several persons have been conveyed to hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five youths have been arrested following a major public order incident in Virginia tonight. Northern Sound FM understands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-561531","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\/561531","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=561531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}