{"id":12876,"date":"2025-08-21T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12876\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:05:08","slug":"man-arrested-after-threatening-public-with-knife-in-limerick-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/12876\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after threatening public with knife in Limerick town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested after threatening members of the public with a knife in a Limerick town.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Tuesday at approximately 9pm on Maiden Street in Newcastle West. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The male in his 30s was arrested and conveyed to Newcastle West Garda Station. He is currently being detained under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984,&#8221; a Garda spokesperson told the  Irish Examiner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Anyone with information has been asked to contact Newcastle West garda station on 069 20650, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any garda station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested after threatening members of the public with a knife in a Limerick town.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5599,5,5600,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-12876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-munster","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-regional","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\/12876","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=12876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}