{"id":660076,"date":"2026-10-20T06:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/660076\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T06:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:18:24","slug":"malahide-attack-td-says-violent-thugs-have-no-fear-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/660076\/","title":{"rendered":"Malahide attack: TD says violent thugs have &#8216;no fear&#8217; of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criminals in Ireland are now \u201coperating without any fear of the law at all\u201d due to systemic policing failures, a Social Democrats TD has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Gript on Monday following a viral video over the weekend of masked thugs attacking a property in Malahide, Dublin Central TD Gary Gannon, who is the party\u2019s justice spokesman, said that the State is suffering from one of the \u201cworst breakdowns in law and order\u201d in recent memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Criminals in Ireland are now \u201coperating without any fear of the law at all\u201d due to systemic policing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,14258,72,54,55,7782,61,60,2285],"class_list":["post-660076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ben-scallan","tag-business","tag-courts","tag-garda","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660076","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=660076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}