{"id":300136,"date":"2026-02-16T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300136\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:45:07","slug":"defence-forces-ombudsman-does-not-have-power-to-investigate-case-of-commandant-denied-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300136\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Forces Ombudsman does not have power to investigate case of commandant denied promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Defence Forces Ombudsman has concluded that he does not have the power to investigate the case of Commandant Alan Kearney, who was denied a promotion and had 12 criminal charges hanging over him for more than two years despite a complete lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Kearney, who has since resigned from the Defence Forces, was subjected to a protracted investigation based on WhatsApp messages he exchanged with a former member of the force who was working for An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Defence Forces Ombudsman has concluded that he does not have the power to investigate the case of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13308,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-300136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-defence-forces","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300136","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=300136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}