{"id":522839,"date":"2026-06-07T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/522839\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:11:13","slug":"gardai-investigating-arson-attack-on-westmeath-sports-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/522839\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed Investigating Arson Attack on Westmeath Sports Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Saturday, 6 June 2026 13:44\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By David Hollywood\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/606c472b1960e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The incident took place in the early hours of Thursday morning.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed in Westmeath are investigating a suspected arson attack on a sports and leisure centre in the county.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at the Regional Sports Centre in Athlone in the early hours of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A garda spokesperson confirmed investigating officers attended the scene after a report of criminal damage a premises in the town.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries are being reported and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 6 June 2026 13:44 By David Hollywood The incident took place in the early hours of Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,19870,19869,18,13,14,6,19,17,19872,11763,11,12,3136,19868,15,16,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,7,8,19871],"class_list":["post-522839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-westmeath"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116707819356434698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522839","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=522839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}