{"id":508351,"date":"2026-06-19T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508351\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:42:09","slug":"castleisland-woman-jailed-after-trying-to-run-down-former-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508351\/","title":{"rendered":"Castleisland woman jailed after trying to run down former partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Castleisland woman who tried to run down her former partner and drove into his jeep has been sentenced to two years in prison.<\/p>\n

Forty-one-year-old Joanna Federico, of Cois Abhainn, Castleisland, was convicted of two counts of reckless endangerment arising from an incident on the 11th of March 2024.<\/p>\n

She was also convicted of one count of criminal damage arising from the same incident.<\/p>\n

Tralee Circuit Court<\/a> heard that Ms Federico and Eddie O’Shea, of St John’s Park, Castleisland, had previously been in a relationship.<\/p>\n

Summing up the case, Judge Alec Gabbett<\/a> said that during a night out in March 2024, Ms Federico went home with a different man.<\/p>\n

An altercation followed and she drove to confront Mr O’Shea on Main Street in Castleisland.<\/p>\n

The court heard she attempted to run Mr O’Shea down before driving into the back of his jeep.<\/p>\n

She was convicted of recklessly endangering Mr O’Shea by driving a vehicle at him, creating a substantial risk of death or serious harm.<\/p>\n

She was also convicted of criminal damage to Mr O’Shea’s vehicle, or being reckless as to whether it was damaged.<\/p>\n

Mr O’Shea, who has since died, sustained just minor injuries.<\/p>\n

However, the court heard that many lives were put at risk by the incident.<\/p>\n

Judge Gabbett described Ms Federico’s behaviour as “most reckless”.<\/p>\n

Video footage shown in court captured witnesses warning others not to get involved because it was too dangerous.<\/p>\n

The court also heard that Ms Federico has 32 previous convictions, mainly for road traffic offences.<\/p>\n

It was told she has had a difficult life and has a problem with alcohol misuse.<\/p>\n

Judge Gabbett sentenced her to two years in prison, with the second year suspended for four years.<\/p>\n

She was also disqualified from driving for four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Castleisland woman who tried to run down her former partner and drove into his jeep has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-508351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","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\/508351","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=508351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}