{"id":137677,"date":"2025-11-13T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:18:08","slug":"sister-of-man-killed-in-hit-and-run-tells-driver-in-court-you-left-my-brother-to-die-like-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137677\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister of man killed in hit-and-run tells driver in court: \u2018You left my brother to die like a dog\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Forde, killed by hit and run disqualified driver, Danny Connors, Clondrinagh Halting Site, Limerick, in November 2024.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download.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)\">James Forde, killed by hit and run disqualified driver, Danny Connors, Clondrinagh Halting Site, Limerick, in November 2024.<\/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)\">The sister of a man killed by a disqualified driver in a hit-and-run, told the defendant in court: \u201cYou left my brother to die like a dog in the road.\u201d<\/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)\">\u00c1ine Forde told the sentencing hearing of Traveller man, Danny Connors (30), who killed her brother James Forde, (56), that her brother was \u201cthe absolute opposite\u201d of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Forde, killed by hit and run disqualified driver, Danny Connors, Clondrinagh Halting Site, Limerick, in November 2024.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-137677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137677","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=137677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}