{"id":131903,"date":"2025-11-10T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131903\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:36:11","slug":"driver-who-refused-to-co-operate-with-garda-was-having-bad-hair-day-says-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131903\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver who refused to co-operate with garda was having \u2018bad hair day\u2019, says judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Cleary declined to hand over his licence, the court heard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3180c789-558e-4571-bf0c-5a0bceb941ce.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)\">Michael Cleary declined to hand over his licence, the court heard<\/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 motorist was having a \u201cbad hair day\u201d when he refused to co-operate with a garda at a checkpoint because he \u201cdidn\u2019t like being stopped\u201d, a judge has said.<\/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)\">Despite being sober and fully insured and licensed, Michael Cleary declined to hand over his licence and rolled up the window, nearly injuring the garda\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Cleary declined to hand over his licence, the court heard A motorist was having a \u201cbad hair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,10747,9924,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-131903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-andrew-phelan","10":"tag-dublin-courts","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131903","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=131903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}