{"id":670649,"date":"2026-10-31T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670649\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:34:20","slug":"two-incidents-of-animal-attacks-on-an-post-staff-recorded-in-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670649\/","title":{"rendered":"Two incidents of animal attacks on An Post staff recorded in Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two incidents of animal attacks on postal staff have been recorded in Kerry this year.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anpost.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An Post<\/a> recorded a 19% increase in incidents over a twelve month period.<\/p>\n<p>The postal service have urged people to keep their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/dogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dogs<\/a> under control within houses and gardens while letters and parcels are being delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, 118 animal attacks of varying degrees of severity have been recorded so far in 2026, up from 99 during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>With the festive season on the horizon, An Post is appealing to householders to ensure pets are securely contained while deliveries are being made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two incidents of animal attacks on postal staff have been recorded in Kerry this year. It comes as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-670649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670649","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=670649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}