{"id":308056,"date":"2026-01-28T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308056\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:42:08","slug":"woman-30s-attacked-by-man-with-hurley-in-limerick-town-is-rushed-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/308056\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 30s, attacked by man with hurley in Limerick town is rushed to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WOMAN was rushed to hospital after she was assaulted in the early hours of the morning in a county town, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> Live has learned.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed she suffered serious injuries after being beaten by a man wielding a hurley in Kilmallock.<\/p>\n<p>Following a media query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson confirmed they received a report of an incident of assault that occurred in the Lord Edward Street area of Kilmallock, on Sunday, January 25 at approximately 5.20am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA woman, aged in her 30s, was conveyed to University Hospital Limerick for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d said a garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2000467\/an-garda-siochana-issue-update-on-the-four-members-found-not-guilty-at-limerick-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">An Garda Siochana issue update on the four members found not guilty at Limerick trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the assault occurred after a house party in a nearby estate in the town.<\/p>\n<p>One local source said: &#8220;This is beyond the pale stuff &#8211; she was badly beaten with a hurley. Everybody is horrified by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with any information that can assist gardai with their enquiries is asked to contact investigating officers in Bruff garda station on 061 382940.<\/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":"A WOMAN was rushed to hospital after she was assaulted in the early hours of the morning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,889,18,13,14,6,19,17,5977,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-308056","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-county-limerick","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-kilmallock","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","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\/308056","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=308056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}