{"id":601727,"date":"2026-08-23T02:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601727\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:06:12","slug":"woman-arrested-and-explosives-seized-in-dundalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601727\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested and explosives seized in Dundalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been arrested as part of a Garda operation which also led to the seizure of guns and improvised explosives in Co Louth.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed carried out several searches in Dundalk on Friday as part of an \u201cinvestigation targeting an organised crime group\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Several homes were searched in the operation which involved the Regional Armed Support Unit, the Special Detective Unit and the Army explosive ordnance disposal unit.<\/p>\n<p>The guns and explosives have been sent for further technical examination.<\/p>\n<p>A woman, aged in her 30s, was arrested and detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939 and held in a station in the north-east of the county.<\/p>\n<p>She can be detained for up to 72 hours, excluding breaks.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said: \u201cInvestigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested as part of a Garda operation which also led to the seizure of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-601727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601727","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=601727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}