{"id":427540,"date":"2026-04-09T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/427540\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:01:08","slug":"defence-forces-clarify-why-armoured-vehicles-are-on-the-streets-of-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/427540\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Forces clarify why armoured vehicles are on the streets of Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Defence Forces have clarified this Thursday morning why armoured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/575\/motoring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">vehicles<\/a> have been spotted on the streets of Limerick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for the Defence Forces, The 28th Infantry Battalion are on a training exercise ahead of a visit to Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/motoring\/2056854\/we-re-losing-livelihoods-fuel-price-protest-continues-in-limerick-with-major-traffic-delays.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;We&#8217;re losing livelihoods&#8217;: Fuel price protest continues in Limerick with major traffic delays<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of speculation across Limerick city and county this Thursday morning after vehicles were spotted in Ballyneety and in Limerick city, Roxboro area.<\/p>\n<p>There was also speculation online that they were going out to Foynes but according to the Defence Forces this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Forces have said they are aware of images circulating of MOWAG Armoured Personnel Carriers in convoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that these are the personnel of the 128th Infantry Battalion conducting mission readiness exercises ahead of deployment to UNIFIL next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mission Readiness Exercises are critical activities to train and prepare our personnel for conducting duties in Southern Lebanon,&#8221; stated the Defence Forces.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Defence Forces have clarified this Thursday morning why armoured vehicles have been spotted on the streets of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,9217,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,1844,7587,15,16,5,138635,7,8],"class_list":["post-427540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-defence-forces","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-roxboro","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116374410685208610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427540","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=427540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}