{"id":232654,"date":"2025-12-14T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/232654\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:23:14","slug":"update-xl-bully-dog-which-savagely-attacked-limerick-woman-put-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/232654\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: XL Bully dog which savagely attacked Limerick woman put down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AN XL Bully dog which viciously attacked a woman in County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> has been euthanised, Limerick Live has learned.<\/p>\n<p>According to one local, the dog\u2019s owner suffered serious bite-related injuries to her arm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1967222\/breaking-car-torched-outside-limerick-maternity-hospital.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BREAKING: Car torched outside Limerick maternity hospital<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a horrific scene. The poor woman,&#8221; they told Limerick Live.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson said garda\u00ed were alerted to an incident involving a dog that occurred at a residential property in the Pallaskenry area of County Limerick on Friday, December 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman, aged in her 30s, was taken by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick for treatment of injuries believed to be serious but non-life-threatening,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the woman remains in the care of hospital staff for treatment of serious injuries to her arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dog was removed by the dog warden,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the XL Bully has since been put down by a vet.<\/p>\n<p>After a number of attacks by XL Bully type dogs in Ireland, new rules were brought in to help keep people safe and prevent further incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Morey, aged 23, was tragically killed by her own XL bully dogs at her home in Fedamore in June 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On October 1, 2024, it became illegal to import, breed, rehome or resell an XL Bully dog.<\/p>\n<p>On February 1, 2025, it became illegal to own an XL Bully dog unless you have a certificate of exemption which means you can keep your XL Bully at your home address until the end of their natural life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After February 1, 2025, you can only apply to a local authority for a certificate of exemption in exceptional cases.<\/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":"AN XL Bully dog which viciously attacked a woman in County Limerick has been euthanised, Limerick Live has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,889,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,15806,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-232654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","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-pallaskenry","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115718848990439580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232654","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=232654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}