{"id":20956,"date":"2025-08-24T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20956\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:41:07","slug":"pub-staff-threatened-by-man-brandishing-a-knife-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20956\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub staff threatened by man brandishing a knife in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI are hunting for a knife-wielding man who threatened staff of a county pub this weekend, Limerick Live has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking incident occurred at a licensed premises in Kilmallock.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1877846\/let-go-brawl-between-women-leaves-one-topless-after-limerick-concert.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;Let Go!&#8217; Brawl between women leaves one topless after Limerick concert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson confirmed garda\u00ed in Kilmallock are investigating an incident of possession of an offensive weapon that occurred at a premises in the early hours of this Sunday morning, August 24 at approximately 1am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA male threatened staff with a weapon and left the scene. Garda\u00ed conducted a search of the area but the male was not located,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the Regional Armed Support Unit responded to assist local gardai.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations are ongoing,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who was in Kilmallock around 1am this Sunday morning and witnessed any suspicious activity is asked to come forward to gardai.<\/p>\n<p>Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam), or pedestrians who have mobile phone footage, are asked to contact Bruff garda station on 061-382940, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800666111, or any garda station.<\/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 are hunting for a knife-wielding man who threatened staff of a county pub this weekend, Limerick Live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,5977,11,12,1844,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-20956","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-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-kilmallock","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-limerick","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","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\/20956","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=20956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}