{"id":14913,"date":"2025-08-21T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14913\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:14:08","slug":"gardai-appeal-for-witnesses-after-violent-incident-in-county-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14913\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardai appeal for witnesses after \u2018violent incident\u2019 in County Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI have confirmed to Limerick Live they are investigating a \u201cviolent incident\u201d that occurred in West\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> this Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said garda\u00ed and emergency services received a report of a vehicle being rammed and an altercation that occurred in the townland of Kilcoole, near Rathkeale shortly after 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1876154\/gardai-arrest-man-over-spate-of-thefts-from-cars-in-limerick-suburb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gardai arrest man over spate of thefts from cars in Limerick suburb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is believed that a man was shot in the hip area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man, aged in his 40s, was transferred to University Hospital Limerick for treatment of injuries, not believed to be life-threatening at this time,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/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>Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this incident to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny road users with camera footage (including dash-cam) who were travelling in the Kilcoole and greater Rathkeale areas between 6.15pm and 7.30pm on Thursday, August 21 are asked to make this footage available to investigating garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone 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,&#8221; said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that a car was later found burnt out.<\/p>\n<p>A major garda enquiry has been launched and investigations are ongoing.<\/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 confirmed to Limerick Live they are investigating a \u201cviolent incident\u201d that occurred in West\u00a0Limerick this Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,889,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,13603,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-14913","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-rathkeale","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913","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=14913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}