{"id":145725,"date":"2025-11-18T03:54:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145725\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:54:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:54:21","slug":"we-are-not-a-rubber-stamp-court-not-satisfied-with-kinahan-chief-sean-mcgoverns-application-for-free-legal-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145725\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are not a rubber stamp\u2019 \u2013 court not satisfied with Kinahan chief Sean McGovern&#8217;s application for free legal aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sean McGovern\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/43b229a2-3c68-48d3-ae2d-f6e742875d11.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)\">Sean McGovern<\/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 Special Criminal Court has said it is still not satisfied with documentation provided by Sean McGovern, who has applied for legal aid after being charged with murder and directing a criminal organisation.<\/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)\">\u201cWe\u2019ve gone from receiving scant information to now even less,\u201d said Ms Justice Karen O\u2019Connor today, adding that the court was obliged to exercise due diligence in the use of taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean McGovern The Special Criminal Court has said it is still not satisfied with documentation provided by Sean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43,60422],"class_list":{"0":"post-145725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-news-in-90-seconds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145725","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=145725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}