{"id":652797,"date":"2026-08-23T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/652797\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:54:12","slug":"armed-gardai-respond-to-riot-after-shot-fired-in-corks-northside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/652797\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed garda\u00ed respond to &#8216;riot&#8217; after shot fired in Cork&#8217;s northside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are searching for guns in Cork city following reports of a shot during an altercation after 3.30pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Armed response garda\u00ed responded following calls about a \u2018riot\u2019 in the Spring Lane area of Ballyvolane in the northside of Cork city this afternoon<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two males were hospitalised following the incident with injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to reports of a discharge of a firearm near Ballyvolane Road, Cork city this afternoon, Sunday, August 23,&#8221; a garda statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Two males are receiving treatment for injuries believed to be non-life-threatening at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It follows a period of heightened unrest around the Spring Lane area of Ballyvolane and is the second incident in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A significant garda presence has been active in the area today, just 24 hours after a similar presence attended for a lengthy period on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Saturday, a garda helicopter and several garda\u00ed responded to a public order incident in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is understood that several individuals were involved in a disturbance around Spring Lane on Saturday afternoon. Garda\u00ed were called to the area, but no complaints were made by any injured party on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are searching for guns in Cork city following reports of a shot during an altercation after 3.30pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5599,5,5600,7,8],"class_list":["post-652797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","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-munster","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652797","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=652797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}