{"id":980448,"date":"2026-05-23T19:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/980448\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:25:32","slug":"masked-men-tie-up-couple-during-early-morning-home-invasion-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/980448\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked men tie up couple during early morning home invasion \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A couple have been left badly shaken after being tied up in their home during an early morning burglary in Co Derry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two masked men entered a property in Formoyle Road area of Macosquin, near Coleraine, at around 1.15am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man in his 70s and a woman in her 60s were tied up during the incident, during which demands were made for money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The men left the property taking two mobile phones, a watch and the keys for a blue Nissan Juke.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/mo-chara-court-case-live-kneecap-rapper-to-find-out-if-terror-charge-will-be-thrown-out-BV3HTFOTE5AQVIFZW5E4OXBNR4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Mo Chara court case LIVE: Kneecap rapper terror charge thrown out after &#x2018;technical error&#x2019;\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779564331_500_LS75QCFJNRDEPK5NYYT3NROWEE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/uda-and-bonfire-flags-erected-near-contentious-north-belfast-pyre-CIOF7KZDUFEJBDUD7PKFQ7OW3E\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"UDA and bonfire flags erected near contentious north Belfast pyre\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779564332_925_LOAIGEJMNBHCHG4A5M55MGYTBQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They drove off in the vehicle, which was last seen at the Moore Road area of Derry shortly after 2am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the couple were not injured, \u201cbut were left badly shaken by the incident\u201d, according to Detective Inspector Lenaghan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEnquiries are continuing and we would appeal to anyone with any information in relation to this incident, to contact detectives on 101 quoting reference number 99 23\/05\/26.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple have been left badly shaken after being tied up in their home during an early morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":980449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[16551,16767,1144,1618,16,15],"class_list":["post-980448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-burglary","tag-derry","tag-northern-ireland","tag-psni","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116625535545475248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}