{"id":418563,"date":"2026-04-26T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:52:08","slug":"former-td-jim-glennon-admits-he-wrote-character-reference-for-man-convicted-of-sexually-exploiting-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418563\/","title":{"rendered":"Former TD Jim Glennon admits he wrote character reference for man convicted of sexually exploiting teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Fianna F\u00e1il TD has admitted to providing a character reference to sex offender Daniel Ramamoorthy.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of an elected representative supplying the reference came to light last week.<\/p>\n<p>Former Fianna F\u00e1il TD Jim Glennon has confirmed he was the politician who provided a character reference for convicted sex offender Daniel Ramamoorthy.<\/p>\n<p>He was a former government IT adviser, and was found guilty of sexually exploiting a teenage boy he met at a children\u2019s camp and also pleaded guilty to possessing child abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement today, Glennon described the crimes as \u201cvile\u201d and said writing the letter was a serious error of judgement, adding that he is deeply sorry for any additional distress caused.<\/p>\n<p>He says he will resign from all professional roles and plans to apologise directly to the victim\u2019s family, through the Courts Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Fianna F\u00e1il TD has admitted to providing a character reference to sex offender Daniel Ramamoorthy. Reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-418563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418563","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=418563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}