{"id":35699,"date":"2025-09-01T02:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T02:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35699\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T02:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T02:52:10","slug":"gardai-arrest-suspect-over-threatening-limerick-pub-staff-with-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35699\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardai arrest suspect over threatening Limerick pub staff with knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARDAI have made an arrest following an investigation into a knife-wielding man threatening staff of a pub in County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at a licensed premises in Kilmallock last weekend. It occurred on Sunday morning, August 24 at approximately 1am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/hurling\/1882981\/injured-limerick-hurling-star-kyle-hayes-supports-clubmates-in-crucial-championship-game.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Injured Limerick hurling star Kyle Hayes supports clubmates in crucial championship game<\/a><\/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, who appealed for witnesses to come forward<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the Regional Armed Support Unit responded to assist local gardai. No injuries have been reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a follow up query from Limerick Live, a garda spokesperson confirmed garda\u00ed investigating the possession of an offensive weapon at a premises in Kilmallock have arrested a man in connection with this enquiry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man, aged in his 30s, was arrested on Friday, August 29 and detained at a garda station in Limerick under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has since been charged and is due to appear before Kilmallock District Court at a later date,\u201d said the garda spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The next sitting of Kilmallock District Court is on Tuesday, September 9.<\/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 have made an arrest following an investigation into a knife-wielding man threatening staff of a pub in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,889,19715,18,13,14,6,19,17,5977,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-35699","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-district-court","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-kilmallock","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699","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=35699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}