{"id":265130,"date":"2026-01-26T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265130\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:42:10","slug":"spontaneous-cheering-in-court-as-five-gardai-found-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265130\/","title":{"rendered":"Spontaneous cheering in court as five garda\u00ed found not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Spontaneous cheering and clapping broke out in a packed Limerick Circuit Criminal Court when four serving garda\u00ed and a retired superintendent were found not guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">All five defendants, Eamon O\u2019Neill, sergeants Anne Marie Hassett and Michelle Leahy and garda\u00ed Tom McGlinchey and Colm Geary broke down when the verdicts were read out.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spontaneous cheering and clapping broke out in a packed Limerick Circuit Criminal Court when four serving garda\u00ed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,7782,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-265130","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\/265130","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=265130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}