{"id":321974,"date":"2026-02-28T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321974\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:58:09","slug":"westmeath-carer-left-agonising-over-livelihood-after-making-gun-gesture-to-female-garda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321974\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmeath carer left agonising over livelihood after making gun gesture to female garda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alan McManus outside Mullingar Courthouse.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8a7be12f-8ae5-47af-8e1e-fe3b917de3b1.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)\">Alan McManus outside Mullingar Courthouse.<\/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)\">A judge has told a carer who vowed to shoot and run over a garda by telling her: \u201cThe next time I see you on the road I am going to run you over, bang, bang,\u201d she may spare him criminal sanction if he continues to engage with probation services.<\/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)\">Judge Bernadette Owens instructed Alan McManus, Ballintubber, Rosemount, Moate, Westmeath, to pursue the \u201cfurther work\u201d probation personnel were still seeking to complete with the 36-year-old following his guilty plea to threatening to kill or cause serious harm to Garda Linzi Martin on May 13, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan McManus outside Mullingar Courthouse. A judge has told a carer who vowed to shoot and run over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,23576,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-321974","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-liam-cosgrove","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321974","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=321974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}