{"id":437354,"date":"2026-05-07T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:26:16","slug":"son-and-daughter-of-publican-charlie-chawke-brought-embarrassment-on-family-with-vicious-and-unprovoked-assault-on-men-at-hotel-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437354\/","title":{"rendered":"Son and daughter of publican Charlie Chawke brought \u2018embarrassment\u2019 on family with vicious and unprovoked assault on men at hotel, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alison and Bill Chawke. Photos: Brendan Gleeson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Copy of split.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)\">Alison and Bill Chawke. Photos: Brendan Gleeson<\/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 son and daughter of prominent publican, Charlie Chawke, who attacked two innocent men at a hotel, have brought \u201cshame\u201d on their family and their family business, barristers for the two siblings told their sentencing hearing today.<\/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)\">Mother of three, Alison Chawke (41), bit one of the men, John McHugh, aged in his 50s, on his cheek and kicked him in the head, as her brother Bill Chawke (31), wrestled with Mr McHugh on the floor of the hotel, Limerick Circuit Criminal Court heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alison and Bill Chawke. Photos: Brendan Gleeson A son and daughter of prominent publican, Charlie Chawke, who attacked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-437354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437354","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=437354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}