{"id":327007,"date":"2026-03-03T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327007\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:27:12","slug":"how-many-lives-have-you-ruined-peddling-your-poison-judge-slams-meat-plant-worker-20s-following-monaghan-drugs-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/327007\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How many lives have you ruined peddling your poison?\u2019 Judge slams meat plant worker (20s) following Monaghan drugs raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joshua Stephenson outside Monaghan Courthouse.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c8ed4711-5d02-4190-bfc4-9614825d518f.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)\">Joshua Stephenson outside Monaghan 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 publicly slated a man who admitted possessing over \u20ac4,000 of drugs following a garda search operation last year by branding him a \u201cdrug dealer\u201d and criticising the many lives that have been \u201cruined from peddling his poison around the parish\u201d.<\/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 Raymond Finnegan delivered the stinging rebuke to Joshua Stephenson (21) of Fairview Drive, Killygowan, Monaghan at a sitting of Monaghan District Court arising from an incident at Tamlat, Tyholland, Monaghan on May 17, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua Stephenson outside Monaghan Courthouse. A judge has publicly slated a man who admitted possessing over \u20ac4,000 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,23576,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-327007","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\/327007","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=327007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}