{"id":563107,"date":"2026-07-22T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563107\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:14:16","slug":"two-gardai-taken-to-hospital-after-edenderry-garda-station-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563107\/","title":{"rendered":"Two garda\u00ed taken to hospital after Edenderry garda station evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDENDERRY GARDA STATION in Co Offaly has been evacuated and two garda\u00ed have been taken to hospital after falling ill while dealing with items seized in a search operation.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed confirmed in a statement this evening that the station remains closed due to \u201coperational reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understood that garda\u00ed have requested the assistance of the Defence Forces to the station on Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources confirmed that two garda\u00ed have been taken to hospital after falling ill while dealing with items seized in a search operation and an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team has been called in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The station remains closed and the garda statement said no further information is available at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDENDERRY GARDA STATION in Co Offaly has been evacuated and two garda\u00ed have been taken to hospital after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13308,72307,21202,125901,7782,42,43,8286,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-563107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-defence-forces","tag-edenderry","tag-emergency-services","tag-eod","tag-gardai","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563107","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=563107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}