{"id":397497,"date":"2026-04-14T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397497\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:39:12","slug":"man-who-assaulted-gaa-umpire-at-underage-match-gets-suspended-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397497\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who assaulted GAA umpire at underage match gets suspended sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Kelly received a suspended sentence. Photo: Collins Courts.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6927cbe9-d747-4866-93cf-2f03a369ca0a.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)\">Michael Kelly received a suspended sentence. Photo: Collins Courts.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Reid and Isabel Hayes<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 17:02<\/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 father who assaulted an umpire at an underage hurling match, leading to the victim suffering a concussion at the hands of others, has been given a suspended three-month sentence.<\/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 actions of Michael Kelly at Clan na Gael club in Dublin in March 2023 were \u201cnot a true reflection of the GAA\u201d, Judge Orla Crowe said as she sentenced him today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Kelly received a suspended sentence. Photo: Collins Courts. Natasha Reid and Isabel Hayes Yesterday at 17:02 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-397497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397497","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=397497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}