{"id":289820,"date":"2026-02-10T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:21:07","slug":"waterford-men-plead-guilty-to-demanding-money-with-menaces-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289820\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterford men plead guilty to &#8216;demanding money with menaces\u2019\u00a0 &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Two locals have pleaded guilty at Waterford Circuit Court to demanding money with menaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michael Keenan, 6 An Cluain, Youghal Road, Dungarvan, pleaded guilty to an incident from June 2024 at Rockfield, Cappoquin, where he made demands for money and threatened to damage another man&#8217;s property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, a second man also entered a guilty plea on the same charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Darren Cummins, Kilongford, Dungarvan, made demands for money and threatened to damage another man&#8217;s property on an unknown date between November 2022 and January 2023, at Shanakill. Cummins also pleaded guilty to counts of possessing cocaine and cannabis for sale or supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Read more about recent hearings at Waterford Circuit Court <a class=\"contextmenu inlinelink\" href=\"https:\/\/red.waterford-news.ie\/news\/waterford-man-pleads-guilty-to-possessing-drugs-for-unlawful-sale-or-supply_arid-87083_puid-105.html\" idref=\"X0.9162282310805026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">HERE<\/a>\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two locals have pleaded guilty at Waterford Circuit Court to demanding money with menaces. Michael Keenan, 6 An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-289820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289820","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=289820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}