{"id":10453,"date":"2025-09-09T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10453\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:28:15","slug":"garda-threatened-to-have-bar-shut-down-assaulted-manager-and-racially-abused-bouncer-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/10453\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda threatened to have bar shut down, assaulted manager and racially abused bouncer, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garda Supt Gavin O'Reilly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/92cca9bd-9a1c-4886-84a4-14306e9c0cb4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Garda Supt Gavin O&#8217;Reilly<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A garda superintendent threatened to get a Dublin gay bar \u201cshut down\u201d, racially abused a bouncer and aggressively smacked the pub manager\u2019s phone from her hand as she recorded him, it is alleged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gavin O\u2019Reilly was on a night out with friends in the bar when he was asked to leave, but returned and told the manager she would \u201cnever work again\u201d before assaulting her, she told a court. The woman also alleged Mr O\u2019Reilly\u2019s fists were clenched, his teeth were bared and he called her a &#8220;bitch&#8221; and a doorman a &#8220;black bastard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda Supt Gavin O&#8217;Reilly A garda superintendent threatened to get a Dublin gay bar \u201cshut down\u201d, racially abused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10747,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-10453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andrew-phelan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453","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=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}