{"id":12155,"date":"2025-08-20T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12155\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:48:11","slug":"breaking-knife-wielding-man-threatens-members-of-the-public-in-limerick-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12155\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Knife-wielding man threatens members of the public in Limerick town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDA have arrested a man brandishing a knife while threatening members of the public in Newcastle West, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> Live has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking incident occurred on the town\u2019s busy Maiden Street on Tuesday night. One local said the man, who is from Newcastle West, went \u201cbeserk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1872840\/gardai-seize-items-in-major-raid-over-traveller-feud-in-county-limerick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gardai seize items in major raid over Traveller feud in County Limerick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said officers responded to reports of a male threatening members of the public in Newcastle West on Tuesday, August 19 at approximately 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo injuries have been reported at this time. The male, aged in his 30s, was arrested and conveyed to Newcastle West garda station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is currently being detained under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984,\u201d said a garda spokesperson this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the accused man, who is known to gardai, entered a number of premises while in possession of a knife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations are ongoing,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who witnessed the alleged public order incidents, or who may have mobile phone or dash-cam footage of what took place are asked to make it available to investigating gardai.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Newcastle West garda station on 069 20650, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/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":"GARDA have arrested a man brandishing a knife while threatening members of the public in Newcastle West, Limerick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,889,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,7589,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-12155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-county-limerick","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-newcastle-west","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155","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=12155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}