{"id":255531,"date":"2026-01-21T04:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255531\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T04:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:31:12","slug":"suspension-for-accused-gardai-terrifying-retired-senior-garda-tells-limerick-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255531\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension for accused garda\u00ed &#8216;terrifying&#8217;, retired senior garda tells Limerick trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A retired assistant Garda commissioner, who was previously involved in investigating complaints of alleged disciplinary breaches in the force, told how it is a \u201cterrifying\u201d ordeal for a serving garda to be put on suspension accused of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fintan Fanning was giving evidence at the trial of retired Supt Eamon O\u2019Neill and four serving garda\u00ed, Sgt Anne Marie Hassett, Sgt Michelle Leahy, Garda Tom McGlinchey and Garda Colm Geary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A retired assistant Garda commissioner, who was previously involved in investigating complaints of alleged disciplinary breaches in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,7782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-255531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-courts","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255531","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=255531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}