{"id":601813,"date":"2026-08-23T04:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601813\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:28:11","slug":"woman-arrested-and-explosives-seized-in-dundalk-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601813\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested and explosives seized in Dundalk \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A woman has been arrested as part of a Garda operation that also led to the seizure of guns and improvised explosives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/louth\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/louth\">Co Louth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed carried out several searches in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundalk\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dundalk\">Dundalk<\/a> on Friday as part of an \u201cinvestigation targeting an organised crime group\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The guns and explosives have been sent for further technical examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 Garda station in the northeast of the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She can be detained for up to 72 hours, excluding breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cInvestigations are ongoing,\u201d a Garda spokesperson said. \u2013 Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested as part of a Garda operation that also led to the seizure of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,9690,61,60,9689,43],"class_list":["post-601813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-dundalk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louth","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601813","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=601813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}