{"id":401406,"date":"2026-04-16T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:16:07","slug":"former-opw-worker-sent-sexualised-messages-to-undercover-psni-officer-posing-as-13-year-old-girl-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401406\/","title":{"rendered":"Former OPW worker sent sexualised messages to undercover PSNI officer posing as 13-year-old girl &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiygFBVV95cUxQVlZDVEdRZ2djdW5DU2lrWXZDbl9FZUUya0sxYmdESkI3RElwNFFxX0dJUVhRNnB1bC1UZ09PdzdITGFtZWktZ1RMbmxIckFQSHZMTWtjaG52TW9CNnJaYVRJaUZ1bjIzazJRZndqUE1tMUdqQ2hpUUh6ajdRUWc0VlllM3RKSUNmblZqZkprZ1h4aEd5bHZHRlNFOXRPN0MzLXdoWl9CX2xZT2hfU19DMVJGT1hWNzhkZEVJWkpzTW53V1Zsbml5Q09R?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former OPW worker sent sexualised messages to undercover PSNI officer posing as 13-year-old girl<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi5gFBVV95cUxPZDlBbWZMQngtMVYyMTVIVUl5VzduQXlkWEc5YjdXTVhISWMwcnVMV3JzTkxNNFQzMF93TnFQWEIwU1VpMWdKbXRjZzNzX01DZElGaVRZZnhGTVJQR1ZmSTBMdl9BMGZ1SWI1cTNsVzNiWGdDX3JueEZCVE1wOWUzdWJ4RlYwV201NTliNUdIYnhOZ3VXcF9kRjZvT2ZLeEp0V3RldmNTYlozVzNhX0xLdmhvMmhQZGs3N3NrZEF4bm9EbjhsVmRSUWdFdTFCU2NoTnVpNXZueUhWbXJEaUNvSERTa3dnZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former OPW employee sent sexualised messages to undercover officer posing as girl (13)<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZkFVX3lxTE01S0ZCb2VsdTk3UTVFRjlpdnVKTGFib0tLaElYdVpweDEzQlZSQmhQM2k0ZTBic1J2Z3JoV3NNcHpraUVKUlVqSVJPVHJ0YU1SdGlqamJ0anduLXVhOXBWdzN2bFZOQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former OPW worker had online sex chat with undercover PSNI officer posing as 13-year-old girl<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;echo live<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1AFBVV95cUxPb3V6U1RuOXJBb3VtYUZQb3pRT1JudU5Mb2xGN3l0VTNGQXVWbHlHcHFmQ3lXXzVvRjZqWS1tbG1Ed2NCZG01SEVWeU1yTEszMVE5aW9ldnp1TGRqcjlnZ1ctTmY0ZDI2azl3R005QlpTUzQ3U2dsUV80UEJWR3QwS3hrb1hqdDVZQmY1NG9xSmFVTVQzeWJEMEVHQ1c4WE15Yk1SNnlvVWpEQjBTT044b3duaXJhNHJ0dWk3dC01eE9IS2F4MDJnUi1zTUtuMkk4cUNZOQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former OPW worker (58) had online sex chat with undercover cop posing as 13-year-old girl<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sunday World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former OPW worker sent sexualised messages to undercover PSNI officer posing as 13-year-old girl&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalFormer OPW employee sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,177081,100937,43,29684,7288,40,38,41,39,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-401406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-kevin-smyth","11":"tag-mullingar-circuit-criminal-court","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-opw","14":"tag-psni","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-westmeath"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401406","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=401406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}