{"id":389248,"date":"2026-04-09T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389248\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:01:11","slug":"motorist-caught-behind-the-wheel-in-kildare-was-already-serving-75-year-driving-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389248\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorist caught behind the wheel in Kildare was already serving 75-year driving ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The driver had been disqualified from driving in 2017, and with five active driving disqualifications to his name, garda\u00ed confirmed he won\u2019t legally be allowed back on the road until 2092\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The driver was arrested and transported to Mountjoy Prison. Photo credit: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Kildare\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/456c7e1d-e464-4d42-9553-053c84bb2bbe.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)\">The driver was arrested and transported to Mountjoy Prison. Photo credit: An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na Kildare<\/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 motorist with a seven decade driving ban has been caught behind the wheel in Co Kildare.<\/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 Naas roads policing unit were out on patrol on the M7 in Co Kildare when they stopped a volkswagen car after they noticed it being driven in a \u201csuspicious\u201d manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver had been disqualified from driving in 2017, and with five active driving disqualifications to his name,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7499,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-389248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389248","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=389248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}