{"id":419531,"date":"2026-04-04T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/419531\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:07:10","slug":"woman-brutally-attacked-by-gang-in-latest-hijacking-spree-as-gardai-warn-of-nationwide-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/419531\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman brutally attacked by gang in latest hijacking spree as garda\u00ed warn of nationwide surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Sources say there is \u2018deep concern\u2019 about how to respond to the gangs following this week\u2019s highly controversial Dublin District Court ruling.On Monday, Garda Se\u00e1n Shields received a road ban for dangerous driving after attempting to pursue two scrambler bikes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There is 'deep concern' among garda\u00ed about how to respond to such attacks following this week's jailing of a garda for dangerous driving while he was pursuing a scrambler bike rider. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d016316e-67a6-4ca5-bf6f-2bb10db878bd.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">There is &#8216;deep concern&#8217; among garda\u00ed about how to respond to such attacks following this week&#8217;s jailing of a garda for dangerous driving while he was pursuing a scrambler bike rider. Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A 35\u2011year\u2011old woman was viciously attacked by a gang of up to eight masked youths in the Rialto area of Dublin after they attempted to steal her e\u2011bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The youths had been hiding in bushes before they jumped out and began punching and beating the woman with sticks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sources say there is \u2018deep concern\u2019 about how to respond to the gangs following this week\u2019s highly controversial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,13458,18,13,14,6,19,17,9257,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-419531","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-darragh-obrien","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-ken-foy","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116344943121327502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419531","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=419531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}