{"id":476512,"date":"2026-05-31T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:28:08","slug":"motorist-caught-driving-161km-h-in-100-zone-in-co-kilkenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476512\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorist caught driving 161km\/h in 100 zone in Co Kilkenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist was caught driving 161 km\/h in a 100 km\/h zone on the N10, Danesfort in Co Kilkenny.<\/p>\n<p>92 people were arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol over the Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In excess of 2,250 drivers were detected for speeding offences for the first three days of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Other high speeds include a driver going 117km\/h in an 80km\/h zone on the R364, Ballyglass South, Williamstown, in Co Galway.<\/p>\n<p>One motorist was going 93km\/h in a 50km\/h zone on the N21, Abbeyfeale East, Abbeyfeale in Co Limerick, while a motorist was driving 81km\/h in a 60km\/h zone on the R397, Keenagh, in Co Longford.<\/p>\n<p>Over 270 drivers were detected holding a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of fatalities on Irish roads to date this year is 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist was caught driving 161 km\/h in a 100 km\/h zone on the N10, Danesfort in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-476512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476512","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=476512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}