{"id":149235,"date":"2025-11-20T01:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149235\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:08:12","slug":"ryanair-passenger-from-newbridge-found-guilty-after-homophobic-slurs-in-toasted-sandwich-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/149235\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair Passenger From Newbridge Found Guilty After Homophobic Slurs In &#8220;Toasted Sandwich&#8221; Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/60b4a02a6a9b3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            On August 15th, Gerard Moorehouse (45) of Piercetown, Newbridge, also locked himself in a toilet as the plane, carrying 200 passengers, prepared to land.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Delays in delivering a toasted sandwich to a passenger from Newbridge on board a Ryanair flight resulted in homophobic slurs and threats being directed at cabin crew.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On August 15th, Gerard Moorehouse (45) of Piercetown, Newbridge, also locked himself in a toilet as the plane, carrying 200 passengers, prepared to land.<\/p>\n<p>In court he claimed, according to the Irish Independent, that he needed his sandwich because he was diabetic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also said he was in the toilet due to bowel problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that he was discriminated against because he is a member of the Traveller community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A cabin attendant said Moorehouse never informed him that he was diabetic and that he could have used the toilet at any other time during the flight.<\/p>\n<p>It was also claimed that Moorehouse asked a Cabin attendant if they were gay, and called them f****ts multiple times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moorehouse accepted that he called the flight attendant names but denied making threats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court found him guilty of threatening and abusive behaviour on an aircraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He received a three-month suspended sentence and was fined \u20ac1,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 15th, Gerard Moorehouse (45) of Piercetown, Newbridge, also locked himself in a toilet as the plane,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,28328,3770],"class_list":["post-149235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149235","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=149235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}