{"id":14681,"date":"2025-08-21T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14681\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:49:07","slug":"breaking-shooting-incident-in-county-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14681\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Shooting incident in County Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN has been hospitalised after being shot in County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> this Thursday evening, Limerick Live has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting incident occurred in West Limerick shortly before 7pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1869289\/gang-of-men-with-knives-and-bottles-of-chemicals-burst-into-busy-limerick-pub.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gang of men with knives and bottles of chemicals burst into busy Limerick pub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is understood the victim suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries. There are also reports of a vehicle being rammed.<\/p>\n<p>An air ambulance was seen in the sky by locals but it is understood the man was transported to University Hospital Limerick by ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>The injured man is believed to be from West Limerick. A large crowd of family members have gathered at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai have launched a major investigation. The scene has been preserved for technical examination.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/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":"A MAN has been hospitalised after being shot in County Limerick this Thursday evening, Limerick Live has learned.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,889,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-14681","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-county-limerick","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-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681","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=14681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}