{"id":581853,"date":"2026-08-03T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581853\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:58:10","slug":"gardai-investigate-firearm-discharge-in-ballinasloe-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581853\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigate firearm discharge in Ballinasloe \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> are investigating the discharge of a firearm in the early hours of Monday in Ballinasloe, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\">Galway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emergency services attended the scene at Dunlo in the town after a report of the incident, which occurred at about 3.15am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 20s was taken to University Hospital Galway to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are investigating \u201call the circumstances\u201d surrounding the event and called for witnesses to the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone who was in the area of C\u00fal\u00e1n Eiscir Riada between 2.30am and 4am who may have information or footage is asked to provide it to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene was preserved for technical examination on Monday morning. Investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating the discharge of a firearm in the early hours of Monday in Ballinasloe, Co Galway.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,4500,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-581853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-galway","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581853","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=581853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}