{"id":391726,"date":"2026-04-10T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391726\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:44:09","slug":"fuel-protest-organiser-had-tax-judgments-of-e550000-and-was-convicted-of-cruelty-after-60-cattle-died-on-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391726\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel protest organiser had tax judgments of \u20ac550,000 and was convicted of cruelty after 60 cattle died on farm"},"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\">James Geoghegan says: \u2018There\u2019s no point trying to bring up that sort of dirt on me now\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Geoghegan, public relations officer for National Fuel Protest (Liam McBurney\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.84176849.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)\">James Geoghegan, public relations officer for National Fuel Protest (Liam McBurney\/PA)<\/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)\">One of the main organisers of the fuel blockades has had six judgments for a total of almost \u20ac550,000 secured against him by the Revenue Commissioners.<\/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)\">James Geoghegan, an agricultural contractor from Westmeath, has emerged as a spokesman for the protest since it began earlier this week, calling for reductions in fuel tax among other demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Geoghegan says: \u2018There\u2019s no point trying to bring up that sort of dirt on me now\u2019 James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[943,61,60,1843,43,11522],"class_list":{"0":"post-391726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cost-of-living","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-micheal-martin","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-revenue-commissioners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391726","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=391726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}