{"id":396925,"date":"2026-04-13T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396925\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:20:07","slug":"tractor-driver-arrested-at-whitegate-charged-with-traffic-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396925\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor driver arrested at Whitegate charged with traffic offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">The driver of a tractor and slurry tank who was arrested recently at Whitegate, Co Cork, has now been charged with a number of serious road traffic offences, garda\u00ed have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The Whitegate oil refinery was the site of a blockade during fuel protests over the last week, which was cleared by garda\u00ed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na said a tractor with a slurry tank approached a cordon checkpoint shortly after 2pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">They said the vehicle was directed to stop by Garda members, but continued on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Garda\u00ed activated blue lights and sirens and pursued the tractor, which they say started \u201cdriving erratically, swerving into the opposite direction in an effort to get away from garda\u00ed and endangering other road users\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">They said the tractor was stopped by uniform and plainclothes officers in marked and unmarked patrol cars and the driver, a man in his 20s, was arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a tractor and slurry tank who was arrested recently at Whitegate, Co Cork, has now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19240,28858,34580,61,60,43,11318],"class_list":{"0":"post-396925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-garda","9":"tag-cork-roads","10":"tag-cork-transport","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-road-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396925","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=396925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}