{"id":565563,"date":"2026-07-24T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565563\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:27:32","slug":"two-gardai-released-from-hospital-after-becoming-unwell-while-handling-seized-vape-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565563\/","title":{"rendered":"Two garda\u00ed released from hospital after becoming unwell while handling seized vape products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO GARDA\u00cd WHO were hospitalised after becoming unwell while on duty at Edenderry garda station in Co Offaly have been released from hospital, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The two garda members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/edenderry-garda-station-evacuated-7110628-Jul2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">became unwell on Wednesday after being involved in processing vape products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The products were seized from a commercial premises as part of an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understood garda\u00ed had requested the assistance of the Defence Forces to the station on Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said in a statement this afternoon that both members have since been released from hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na continues to provide welfare support to the members and their families,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Edenderry Garda Station remains closed while garda\u00ed continue to make enquiries into the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The station was evacuated on Wednesday and closed for \u201coperational reasons\u201d, with specialist deep cleaning due to take place.<\/p>\n<p>Policing services in the area continue to be provided from Tullamore Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said no further information is available at this time and enquiries are \u201congoing\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TWO GARDA\u00cd WHO were hospitalised after becoming unwell while on duty at Edenderry garda station in Co Offaly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102843,13308,72307,55,42,43,40,38,41,39,111062,238828,20000],"class_list":["post-565563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-co-offaly","tag-defence-forces","tag-edenderry","tag-garda","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unwell","tag-vape-products","tag-vapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565563","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=565563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}