{"id":194121,"date":"2025-11-22T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/194121\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:36:10","slug":"e1300-worth-of-penneys-clothing-splattered-in-blood-in-terrifying-westmeath-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/194121\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20ac1,300 worth of Penneys clothing splattered in blood in \u2018terrifying\u2019 Westmeath brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Keenan on the steps of Athlone Courthouse.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cb5717f4-58c3-45ee-bb2a-983dd5f4bdb2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Keenan on the steps of Athlone Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Staff and shoppers at a Penneys department store in a midlands town underwent a \u201cterrifying\u201d ordeal as they watched on in horror while two men left \u201cblood spilling\u201d from each other during a violent brawl, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michael Keenan, An Cluain Road, Youghal Road, Dungarvan, Co Waterford, caused almost \u20ac1,300 worth of damage to clothing, the vast bulk of which had come from his co-accused who \u201cgot more than he bargained for\u201d during the unseemly ruckus at Penneys, Golden Island Shopping Centre, Athlone, Westmeath on May 31, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Keenan on the steps of Athlone Courthouse. Staff and shoppers at a Penneys department store in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,9522],"class_list":{"0":"post-194121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-liam-cosgrove"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115592677853636310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194121","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=194121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}