{"id":243063,"date":"2026-01-13T22:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243063\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:36:19","slug":"judge-who-said-cyclists-have-become-a-nightmare-sparks-backlash-but-he-had-his-own-run-in-with-road-safety-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243063\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge who said cyclists have become \u2018a nightmare\u2019 sparks backlash \u2013 but he had his own run-in with road safety laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">Judge James O\u2019Donohoe was fined \u20ac600 in 2012 for failing to provide breath sample\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Judge James O'Donohoe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b806c076-f878-4a57-8766-479401d0ba21.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)\">Judge James O&#8217;Donohoe<\/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 judge has incurred the wrath of the pedal power population for saying that \u201ccyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin\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)\">\u201cYou never know with cyclists what they are going to do or anticipate what they are going to do,\u201d Judge James O\u2019Donohoe said this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge James O\u2019Donohoe was fined \u20ac600 in 2012 for failing to provide breath sample Judge James O&#8217;Donohoe A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9924,3774,8934,42,43,6085,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-243063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dublin-courts","tag-fionnan-sheahan","tag-green-party","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-rte","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243063","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=243063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}