{"id":125696,"date":"2025-10-16T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125696\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:26:08","slug":"breaking-scene-cordoned-off-after-incident-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125696\/","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><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong><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":125697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,76189,9,10,9217,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,7587,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-125696","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-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-defence-forces","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-limerick-city","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-news","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\/125696","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=125696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}