{"id":603062,"date":"2026-08-24T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603062\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:42:22","slug":"cork-riot-gardai-searching-for-guns-after-shot-fired-during-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603062\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork &#8216;riot&#8217;: Garda\u00ed searching for guns after shot fired during altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed are searching for guns in Cork city following reports of a shot during an altercation after 3.30pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Armed response garda\u00ed responded following calls about a \u2018riot\u2019 in the Spring Lane area of Ballyvolane in the northside of Cork city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two males were hospitalised following the incident with injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to reports of a discharge of a firearm near Ballyvolane Road, Cork city this afternoon, Sunday, August 23,&#8221; a garda statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Two males are receiving treatment for injuries believed to be non-life-threatening at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It follows a period of heightened unrest around the Spring Lane area of Ballyvolane and is the second incident in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A significant garda presence has been active in the area today, just 24 hours after a similar presence attended for a lengthy period on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Saturday, a garda helicopter and several garda\u00ed responded to a public order incident in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is understood that several individuals were involved in a disturbance around Spring Lane on Saturday afternoon. Garda\u00ed were called to the area, but no complaints were made by any injured party on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are searching for guns in Cork city following reports of a shot during an altercation after 3.30pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5658,79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-603062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603062","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=603062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}