{"id":137989,"date":"2025-11-13T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137989\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:02:21","slug":"former-inter-county-gaa-referee-thomas-howard-jailed-for-more-than-six-years-for-indecently-assaulting-niece-when-she-was-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137989\/","title":{"rendered":"Former inter-county GAA referee Thomas Howard jailed for more than six years for indecently assaulting niece when she was a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Thomas Howard was in charge of 1993 Derry-Cork All-Ireland final\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Howard as referee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b4b697e5-0475-454d-bcf3-0f941f8a823e.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)\">Thomas Howard as referee<\/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 prominent former GAA referee has been sentenced to six years and nine months for indecently assaulting his niece from when she was three or four years old until she reached puberty.<\/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)\">Thomas Howard (79), of Old Kilcullen, Co Kildare, appeared before Judge Sine\u00e1d McMullen at Portlaoise Circuit Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0 Thomas Howard was in charge of 1993 Derry-Cork All-Ireland final Thomas Howard as referee A prominent former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13975,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-137989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-conor-feehan","9":"tag-headlines","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\/137989","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=137989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}