{"id":256638,"date":"2026-01-21T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256638\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:33:10","slug":"man-43-who-rammed-van-into-gates-causing-nieces-death-after-cocaine-and-alcohol-bender-is-jailed-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256638\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (43) who rammed van into gates, causing niece\u2019s death, after cocaine and alcohol bender is jailed for five years"},"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\">Danny O\u2019Donoghue also approached a member of feud family with a three-foot machete on the day of the tragedy in LimerickVictim Marguerita O\u2019Rourke was only 21 and had just had a babyFather of victim says O\u2019Donoghue \u2018used his vehicle as a weapon of destruction to cause fatal injuries to our daughter\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marguerita O\u2019Rourke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6ffd5cbb-6d44-4d0f-aa02-f86027a57579.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)\">Marguerita O\u2019Rourke<\/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 man who was high on drink and drugs when he caused the death of his niece through dangerous driving  has been jailed for five years.<\/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)\">Danny \u2018Big Dan\u2019 O\u2019Donoghue (43) was coming down off an alcohol and cocaine bender when he rammed into eight-foot-high screened gates that his niece Marguerita O\u2019Rourke was standing behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny O\u2019Donoghue also approached a member of feud family with a three-foot machete on the day of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-256638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256638","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=256638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}