{"id":168386,"date":"2025-11-07T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168386\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:51:12","slug":"woman-found-trapped-inside-suitcase-on-bus-citylink-assisting-gardai-with-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168386\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found trapped inside suitcase on bus &#8211; Citylink &#8216;assisting gardai&#8217; with probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clip shows a suitcase in the carriage of a Galway Bus being unzipped with a woman discovered inside<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_SUITCASEWOMAN_censored.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A screenshot taken from the video widely shared on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Citylink officials are assisting gardai in an investigation after video surfaced online showing a woman trapped inside a suitcase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">In a statement released on Friday evening, Citylink confirmed that the woman in question was an &#8220;unauthorised&#8221; passenger on their service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">The worrying video appears to show a woman inside a suitcase in the hold of a Galway Bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">In the video, you can see the suitcase on its side and can hear a woman calling out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759950316_262_0_OTOOLE-HEALY.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/>Sign up to our new Crime Ireland newsletter and get exclusive content from Michael O&#8217;Toole and Paul Healy<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Irish Mirror&#8217;s Crime Writers Michael O&#8217;Toole and Paul Healy are writing a new weekly newsletter called Crime Ireland. Click <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=af475e3d-0f62-4122-8ccc-323a78c47a81&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here to sign up<\/a> and get it delivered to your inbox every week<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">The person who is recording approaches the suitcase and unzips it to find a woman who appears confused and afraid,&#8221; reports <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galwaybeo.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Galway BeoLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Galway Beo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">A man can be heard asking her, &#8220;who put you in there?&#8221; before she eventually manages to get out of the suitcase, saying, &#8220;thank God, thank God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">The woman then sits up and puts her head in her hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">In a statement to Galway Beo, a Citylink spokesperson said: &#8220;We are aware of the footage involving an unauthorised traveller on one of our services. We have assisted the Garda with their investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=39e53cb8-b266-4e33-8d00-e9f7a38f420c&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Sign up hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clip shows a suitcase in the carriage of a Galway Bus being unzipped with a woman discovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,1878,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-168386","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-galway","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-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115509926909581149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168386","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=168386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}