{"id":296082,"date":"2026-01-21T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:39:10","slug":"gardai-investigate-shooting-incident-in-residential-area-of-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296082\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardai investigate shooting incident in residential area of Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NO INJURIES or damage to property has been reported after a shooting incident on the southside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city.<\/p>\n<p>Following a query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson confirmed they are investigating all of the circumstances surrounding an incident where a firearm was discharged.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred at around 8.35pm in the Ballinacurra Weston area of\u00a0 Limerick city on Monday, January 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo injuries or damage were reported at the time. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/motoring-news\/1994358\/criminals-try-every-house-and-car-door-handle-in-limerick-estate-before-stealing-vehicle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Criminals try every house and car door handle in Limerick estate before stealing vehicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tensions are reported to be high in the area with a number of incidents &#8211; related to an ongoing dispute between rival factions &#8211;\u00a0 taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Armed, uniform and plainclothes gardai are all on alert. Regular patrols are being conducted in the Ballinacurra West area.<\/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":"NO INJURIES or damage to property has been reported after a shooting incident on the southside of Limerick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,76189,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,7587,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-296082","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-ballinacurra-weston","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","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-limerick-city","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115934079416604333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296082","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=296082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}