{"id":432580,"date":"2026-05-05T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432580\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:30:11","slug":"alert-kilkenny-people-in-fear-as-major-garda-operation-takes-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432580\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: Kilkenny people in &#8216;fear&#8217; as major garda operation takes place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Garda S\u00edochana have been carrying out checkpoints across<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/section\/115\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> County Kilkenny<\/a> catching out drivers who fear such traffic stops&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, a total of 123 people were arrested for driving under the influence of drink and\/or drugs this weekend, while 2,400 drivers were caught speeding over the bank holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Roads Policing Unit are busy with checkpoints today. Those socialising last night fear such traffic stops. The results can hugely affect your future,&#8221; a garda social media post read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kilkennypeople.ie\/news\/your-community\/2075945\/you-were-a-legend-huge-party-held-for-retiring-kilkenny-postman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">READ NEXT:\u00a0&#8216;You were a legend&#8217; &#8211; huge party held for retiring Kilkenny postman\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Garda S\u00edochana have been carrying out checkpoints across County Kilkenny catching out drivers who fear such traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,12969,188852,43],"class_list":["post-432580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-kilkenny-gardai","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432580","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=432580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}