{"id":319466,"date":"2026-02-27T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319466\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:08:09","slug":"drogheda-hit-with-e15k-fine-and-temporary-away-fan-ban-over-flare-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319466\/","title":{"rendered":"Drogheda hit with \u20ac15k fine and temporary away fan ban over flare damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fire stewards remove flares from the pitch before the SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division match between Dundalk and Drogheda United at Oriel Park. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3362863 (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Fire stewards remove flares from the pitch before the SSE Airtricity Men&#8217;s Premier Division match between Dundalk and Drogheda United at Oriel Park. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Drogheda United have been hit with a \u20ac15,000 fine and their fans have been banned from the next four away matches, as part of the punishment for incidents at last week\u2019s Louth derby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The FAI\u2019s Independent Disciplinary Committee met today to assess what steps to take against Drogheda after flares were thrown onto Dundalk\u2019s new artificial pitch at Oriel Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire stewards remove flares from the pitch before the SSE Airtricity Men&#8217;s Premier Division match between Dundalk and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2049,14640,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-319466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-drogheda-united-fc","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319466","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=319466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}