{"id":287893,"date":"2026-02-08T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287893\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:11:10","slug":"ballyshannon-woman-fined-e388-for-having-no-car-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287893\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballyshannon woman fined \u20ac388 for having no car tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ballyshannon woman was fined \u20ac250 and ordered to pay \u20ac138 in costs for having a vehicle which failed to display a valid road tax disc.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Lawn, of 55 Cluain Barron, Ballyshannon, was found to be the registered owner of the vehicle which was parked at No.1 Car Park, Donegal Town, on August 26, 2025, without a current road licence displayed.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant failed to appear at the Donegal District Court sitting at Ballyshannon Courthouse, and Judge \u00c9ite\u00e1in Cunningham was satisfied to proceed in her absence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Judge Cunningham fined Lawn \u20ac250 for the offence, plus ordered her to pay \u20ac138 in costs. She was given four months to pay the fine and costs by Judge Cunningham. The combined fine and costs for the offence amounted to \u20ac388.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ballyshannon woman fined \u20ac388 for having no car tax was last modified:  February 6th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ballyshannon woman was fined \u20ac250 and ordered to pay \u20ac138 in costs for having a vehicle which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11243,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-287893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donegal-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287893","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=287893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}