{"id":430908,"date":"2026-05-03T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430908\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:41:09","slug":"almost-1000-vehicles-with-no-insurance-seized-in-limerick-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/430908\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 1,000 vehicles with no insurance seized in Limerick last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"696\" height=\"482\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Car-insurance-696x482.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Car insurance\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ALMOST 1,000 vehicles were seized across Limerick city and county throughout all of last year after being found to have been travelling with no insurance.<\/p>\n<p>And, the county may already be on track to surpass that number after just the first three months of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to figures provided to Labour TD for Limerick City, Deputy Conor Sheehan, via a parliamentary question in the D\u00e1il.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Jim O\u2019Callaghan told Deputy Sheehan that he was advised by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na that 918 vehicles were seized by Garda\u00ed across the Limerick Division last year for having no insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a onclick=\"\" class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"Mjg2LDIsMSw2MA==\" href=\"https:\/\/greatlimerickrun.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2184\" height=\"270\" onload=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"width:auto;\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/artboard-1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    Signup for the Limerick Post newsletter&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>In the first three months of this year, already 275 were seized for the same offence \u2013 close to 30 per cent of last year\u2019s total.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; ALMOST 1,000 vehicles were seized across Limerick city and county throughout all of last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33659,7782,103,61,60,114506,9771],"class_list":["post-430908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-conor-sheehan","tag-gardai","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-seized","tag-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430908","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=430908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}