{"id":84182,"date":"2025-10-16T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84182\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:06:08","slug":"breaking-scene-cordoned-off-after-incident-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84182\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Scene cordoned off after incident in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI have cordoned off a crime scene after an attack on a property on the southside of the city, Limerick Live understands.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, a device was &#8220;thrown&#8221; at a home in the Hyde Road area of Ballinacurra Weston late last night.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1918615\/breaking-petrol-bomb-attack-on-limerick-home-while-family-watched-tv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Petrol bomb attack on Limerick home while family watched TV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are no reports of any injuries at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team has responded from Cork and gardai have put a cordon in place for forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai and the Defence Forces have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, on Monday night, a petrol bomb was thrown at a bungalow located nearby. One source told Limerick Live that family members were sitting on the couch watching TV at the time. No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks are the latest in a series of petrol and pipe bomb attacks on cars and homes, as well as drive-by shootings, on the southside of the city this year.<\/p>\n<p>They are being linked to an ongoing dispute involving rival groupings, centred around the Ballinacurra Weston area. <\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARDAI have cordoned off a crime scene after an attack on a property on the southside of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,54319,13308,61,60,44,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-84182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-ballinacurra-weston","10":"tag-defence-forces","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-limerick-city","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84182","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=84182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}