{"id":263921,"date":"2026-01-02T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263921\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:40:08","slug":"man-in-critical-condition-following-new-years-day-assault-in-co-roscommon-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263921\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in critical condition following New Year\u2019s Day assault in Co Roscommon \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 30s is in a critical condition in hospital after an alleged serious assault in Ballaghaderreen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/roscommon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/roscommon\/\">Co Roscommon<\/a>, in the early hours of New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> have arrested a man in his 40s in connection with their investigation into the Barrack Street incident, which they say occurred at about 1am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is being detained at a Garda station in the north western region under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act of 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The male in his 30s was brought to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing for witnesses to the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior investigating officer has been appointed, and garda\u00ed have established an incident room at Castlerea Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They are seeking information and video footage people may have of the Barrack Street area between 12.45am and 1.15am on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 30s is in a critical condition in hospital after an alleged serious assault in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,13172,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-263921","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-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","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-roscommon","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115827207675487973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263921","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=263921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}