{"id":481473,"date":"2026-06-03T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481473\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:59:09","slug":"wife-of-convicted-drug-importer-nathan-mcdonnell-facing-charge-of-drug-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/481473\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of convicted drug importer Nathan McDonnell facing charge of drug driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of convicted drug importer Nathan McDonnell is facing a charge of drug driving.<\/p>\n<p>44-year-old Jacqueline O\u2019Duffy of Ballyroe, Tralee, is accused of driving or attempting to drive a motor vehicle at Clogherbrien, Tralee, on 23rd August last year while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishstatutebook.ie\/eli\/2016\/act\/21\/section\/8\/enacted\/en\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exceeding drug levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ms O\u2019Duffy\u2019s case was listed before Tralee District Court today, but she did not attend court herself and was represented by solicitor P\u00e1draig O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Connell raised his concern that before the matter was ever in court, it was in the public domain, and there will be an issue with that.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Connell applied for full disclosure, and the matter was adjourned to 24th June.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan McDonnell was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/nathan-mcdonnell-jailed-for-12-years-for-drug-and-organised-crime-offences-423837\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year sentenced<\/a> to 12 years in prison for his role in the attempted smuggling of around 550kg of meth from Mexico to Australia, via Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wife of convicted drug importer Nathan McDonnell is facing a charge of drug driving. 44-year-old Jacqueline O\u2019Duffy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,207314,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-481473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-nathan","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481473","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=481473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}