{"id":117682,"date":"2025-10-12T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117682\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:38:07","slug":"two-arrested-after-man-suffers-serious-injuries-in-petrol-attack-in-co-tipperary-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117682\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested after man suffers serious injuries in petrol attack in Co Tipperary \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garda\u00ed<\/a> have arrested two men for questioning after another man suffered serious burn injuries when his car was doused in petrol and set alight at a property in Co Tipperary<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The incident happened at a house at Knockane, Ballylooby about 8km from Cahir at about 11pm, when a row broke out between three men who were known to each other.<\/p>\n

One man in his 30s got into a car and was attempting to drive away when he crashed into a fence and two other men attacked him, dousing the car in petrol and setting it alight.<\/p>\n

The driver managed to get out of the car and, although badly burned, made his way to a neighbouring house where he raised the alarm and the emergency services were alerted.<\/p>\n

He was rushed by ambulance to Cork University Hospital<\/a> where he was treated for his injuries and was later transferred to the burns unit at St James\u2019s Hospital<\/a> in Dublin.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed say the man suffered serious burns to about 60 per cent of his body but officers remain hopeful he will survive what they believe was an attempted murder. <\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed later arrested two men in their late 20s from the Cahir area for questioning and they were taken to Cahir Garda station.<\/p>\n

The two men were detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984, which allows garda\u00ed to hold suspects for up to 24 hours.<\/p>\n

However, it is understood that questioningdid not begin until about 8am on Sunday morning as the suspects were not deemed medically fit for questioning upon their arrest.<\/p>\n

The scene of the attack has been sealed off and Garda technical experts have begun a forensic examination of the burnt-out car and other items.<\/p>\n

They have also begun extensive searches in the area and door-to-door inquiries to see if anybody heard any disturbances. <\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed have also begun harvesting CCTV footage from Ballylooby and Cahir as they try to piece together the movements of the three men.<\/p>\n

Anyone with any information or camera footage that might assist garda\u00ed in their inquiries is asked to contact Cahir Garda station on 052-7445630.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have arrested two men for questioning after another man suffered serious burn injuries when his car was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,60926,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,72078,2121,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-117682","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-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork-university-hospital-cuh","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-st-jamess-hospital","24":"tag-tipperary","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}