{"id":276364,"date":"2026-02-02T04:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:21:12","slug":"irish-bus-driver-in-london-says-he-wants-apology-after-he-was-sacked-after-catching-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/276364\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish bus driver in London says he wants apology after he was sacked after catching thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A bus driver who was sacked after he chased down a thief to return a passenger\u2019s stolen necklace said he would \u201cbe very happy\u201d if Metroline apologised \u2014 but does not want to return to his job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More than 100,000 people have signed a petition to support Mark Hehir, 62, who was sacked after he chased a thief who stole a passenger\u2019s necklace before knocking them out in self-defence when they returned to the bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bus driver who was sacked after he chased down a thief to return a passenger\u2019s stolen necklace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5658,42,43,4021,25198,4022,4023,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-276364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-irish-examiner-instagram","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-place-europe","12":"tag-place-london","13":"tag-place-republic-of-ireland","14":"tag-place-uk","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276364","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=276364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}