{"id":249262,"date":"2026-01-17T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249262\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:32:08","slug":"the-taxpayer-pays-for-you-to-sit-at-home-scratching-yourself-judge-blasts-young-father-for-abusing-gardai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249262\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The taxpayer pays for you to sit at home scratching yourself\u2019 \u2013Judge blasts young father for abusing garda\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William Delaney on the steps of Monaghan Courthouse.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0e4d62cb-5386-4f35-93cc-dca5d4f15a0b.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)\">William Delaney on the steps of Monaghan Courthouse.<\/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 father of three who launched a foul-mouthed tirade of abuse at garda\u00ed by telling them: \u201cI am going to the pub, so f*** off, you c***\u201d has been slated as a \u201cman of leisure\u201d by a judge for choosing to take time off work by instead going on the dole.<\/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)\">Judge Raymond Finnegan delivered the scathing attack on William Delaney (31) following his candid admission at a sitting of Monaghan District Court to rely on social welfare as a means of income as opposed to continuing in employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Delaney on the steps of Monaghan Courthouse. A father of three who launched a foul-mouthed tirade of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,23576,43],"class_list":["post-249262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liam-cosgrove","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249262","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=249262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}