{"id":596307,"date":"2026-08-17T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:50:09","slug":"gardai-investigating-after-man-operating-stop-go-sign-punched-by-motorist-in-tralee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596307\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed investigating after man operating stop\/go sign punched by motorist in Tralee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man operating a stop\/go sign in Tralee was allegedly punched in the face by a motorist in the middle of the day last week.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of several assaults in the town within the last week which garda\u00ed are investigating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/an-garda-siochana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> say a man operating a stop\/go sign at a local road works on Killeen Road in Tralee was assaulted by a male driver, who exited his vehicle and punched him in the face.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at approximately 12:40 in the day last Wednesday 12th August.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed say the injured party sustained swelling and bruising to his face as a result, and they\u2019re appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>They say the man who was punched didn\u2019t get the number of the car.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, on Thursday night at the Island of Geese at about 9:20, a man in his 20s was assaulted by a group of youths, who approached him and his friends.<\/p>\n<p>The youths were not known to them, and it\u2019s believed to have been an unprovoked attack.<\/p>\n<p>The man in his 20s suffered minor facial injuries, including a cut to his lip.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at around 9:40pm, a man was headbutted in the face, causing a minor injury to his eye, near Circle K and McDonald\u2019s in Rathass, Tralee.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed believe there likely would have been people around the area who may have witnessed the incident and have yet to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who saw any of these incidents, or has any information or dash-cam footage, is asked to contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garda.ie\/en\/contact-us\/station-directory\/tralee.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tralee garda station<\/a> on 066 7102300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man operating a stop\/go sign in Tralee was allegedly punched in the face by a motorist in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,252537],"class_list":["post-596307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-punched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596307","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=596307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}