{"id":172139,"date":"2025-12-03T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172139\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:07:12","slug":"dental-nurse-who-broke-red-light-and-knocked-down-schoolgirl-avoids-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172139\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental nurse who broke red light and knocked down schoolgirl avoids prison sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruth Kavanagh, of Dalriada Park, Ballycullen, Dublin, who was given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court Photo: Collins Courts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/858f9255-c3f5-48a8-ab95-24f71f374d77.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)\">Ruth Kavanagh, of Dalriada Park, Ballycullen, Dublin, who was given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court Photo: Collins Courts<\/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 dental nurse who broke a red light and knocked down a Leaving Cert student who was walking to school has been given a suspended sentence.<\/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)\">Ruth Kavanagh (29) had just dropped her child off to a nearby creche and was driving her usual route to work when she broke the red light at a pedestrian crossing and knocked down the secondary school girl who was crossing the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruth Kavanagh, of Dalriada Park, Ballycullen, Dublin, who was given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-172139","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172139","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=172139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}