{"id":581620,"date":"2026-08-03T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581620\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:58:08","slug":"man-injured-following-firearm-discharge-in-co-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581620\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured following firearm discharge in Co Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been injured and an investigation is under way following the discharge of a firearm in Ballinasloe, Co Galway.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say the incident happened in Dunlo at 3.15am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who is in his 20s, was brought to University Hospital Galway with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The scene is preserved for technical examination and garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed are asking anyone who was in the C\u00fal\u00e1n Eiscir Riada area between 2.30am and 4am and who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to contact Ballinasloe Garda Station on 090 9631890, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been injured and an investigation is under way following the discharge of a firearm in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-581620","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\/581620","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=581620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}