{"id":101249,"date":"2025-10-24T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101249\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:24:06","slug":"money-sent-back-to-limerick-woman-who-tried-repeatedly-to-pay-a-speeding-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101249\/","title":{"rendered":"Money sent back to Limerick woman who tried repeatedly to pay a speeding fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WOMAN who was caught driving 20km over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/463\/crime-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">speed limit<\/a> could not pay a fine because she didn\u2019t have a licence and her money was posted back to her.<\/p>\n<p>On March 30 of this year, the 45-year-old woman with an address in Croom, County Limerick, was stopped by garda\u00ed for driving 80km in a 60km zone.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that she was forthcoming and said that she didn\u2019t have a licence, that she\u2019s never had a licence and was not insured. \u201cI\u2019m guilty\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/education\/1925262\/ul-officially-begins-search-for-visionary-leader-as-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UL officially begins search for \u2018visionary leader\u2019 as president<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She tried to pay the fine online and it could not be processed, then she sent money by post and it was sent back to her.<\/p>\n<p>Because she does not have a licence, the penalty points could not be attached to a licence and the fine payment could not be processed and the payment was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Karen Dowling accepted that there were difficult circumstances in the woman\u2019s life and that she is caring for children and said: \u201cthat\u2019s a first &#8211; money getting sent back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman told the court: \u201cThey were refusing my money &#8211; I tried.\u201d The case was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WOMAN who was caught driving 20km over the speed limit could not pay a fine because she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5721,61,60,1396,4580,43],"class_list":["post-101249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-district-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-newcastle-west","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}