{"id":599826,"date":"2026-07-23T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/599826\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:50:09","slug":"edenderry-garda-station-closed-after-gardai-become-unwell-while-processing-seized-vapes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/599826\/","title":{"rendered":"Edenderry Garda station closed after garda\u00ed become unwell while processing seized vapes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Edenderry Garda station has been closed and two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">garda\u00ed<\/a> have been hospitalised following an incident involving seized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/vaping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/vaping\/\">vapes<\/a> at the Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/offaly\">Offaly<\/a> station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The garda\u00ed were involved in processing vape products seized from a commercial premises during an ongoing investigation on Wednesday when they became unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The two men are currently in hospital under medical assessment and are expected to remain there overnight. Their condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said it is providing \u201cwelfare support\u201d to the two members and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It said Edenderry Garda station will remain closed pending further examination and specialist deep cleaning is to take place on Thursday. Policing services in the area are being provided from Tullamore Garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It is understood garda\u00ed do not suspect any sinister motive behind the incident, but that the two members became unwell possibly due to fumes or leaks from the items while they were packaging and labelling them for evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The force said it has no further comment at this time pending outcome of ongoing enquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edenderry Garda station has been closed and two garda\u00ed have been hospitalised following an incident involving seized vapes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,3171,7,8,84031],"class_list":["post-599826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vaping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116967730431932122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599826","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=599826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}