{"id":670653,"date":"2026-10-31T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670653\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T07:38:12","slug":"doorman-was-allegedly-attacked-at-waterford-city-bar-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670653\/","title":{"rendered":"Doorman was allegedly attacked at Waterford city bar &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A 38-year-old man who allegedly attacked a doorman at a local bar has appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">James Halligan, of Gracedieu Heights, Waterford, is believed to have committed the assault in February of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is understood that after being refused entry to a popular venue in the Apple Market, Halligan struck the doorman on the lip using his forehead, and grappled with him on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was identified by garda\u00ed via CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He has been charged with assault causing harm, contrary to the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Catriona Murray accepted jurisdiction to Waterford District Court last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The matter will return to this court in the coming weeks for further progress to be made in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man who allegedly attacked a doorman at a local bar has appeared in court. James Halligan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-670653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670653","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=670653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}