{"id":647514,"date":"2026-10-07T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/647514\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:12:09","slug":"man-in-critical-condition-after-attempted-e-scooter-robbery-in-co-louth-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/647514\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in \u2018critical\u2019 condition after attempted e-scooter robbery in Co Louth \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man (40s) has been hospitalised with \u201cserious injuries\u201d following an attempt to steal his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/escooters\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/escooters\/\">e-scooter<\/a> by two men in Co Louth on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">One man has been arrested in connection with the incident. <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 searching for the second suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The victim of the attempted robbery, in his 40s, was brought to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and remains in \u201ccritical condition\u201d after being approached in Muirhevnamor at about 8.30pm by two men who tried to steal his e-scooter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed arrested a man in his 30s in connection with the attempted robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is being held in a nearby Garda station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda have appealed for any witnesses to the incident, or anyone who may have video footage from the Muirhevnamor area between 7pm and 9pm on Tuesday to contact investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man (40s) has been hospitalised with \u201cserious injuries\u201d following an attempt to steal his e-scooter by two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,137170,61,60,9689,43],"class_list":["post-647514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-escooters","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-louth","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647514","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=647514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}