{"id":530286,"date":"2026-07-03T00:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:52:15","slug":"joshua-allen-in-court-charged-with-assaulting-gardai-and-drug-driving-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530286\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Allen in court charged with assaulting garda\u00ed and drug-driving offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Allen has appeared before a court in Co Cork to face charges which include assaulting two garda\u00ed, failing to stop at a garda checkpoint and proceeding to drive at a garda at speed.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old is also charged with dangerous driving, driving intoxicated, unlawful possession of ketamine and possession of a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Allen of Ballinamona, Shanagarry, Co Cork, was before Midleton District Court to enter a plea to the charges or to request a book of evidence in order to contest the case.<\/p>\n<p>He faces nine charges.<\/p>\n<p>The case was adjourned until September 17th as solicitors are currently withdrawing services in protest over the introduction of a controversial new payment system for criminal legal aid.<\/p>\n<p>Allen asked Judge Colm Roberts for an adjournment of the case. The Judge acceded to his request given the current situation in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>The son of celebrity chef Rachel Allen was remanded on bail pending his next court appearance.<\/p>\n<p>All of the offences were allegedly carried out on October 27th, 2025 in the Shanagarry area of Co Cork.<\/p>\n<p>The first charge is that on the R629 at Monagurra, Shanagarry Allen intentionally or recklessly engaged in conduct while driving a red Ford Transit van.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offence is that he failed to stop when directed to at a garda checkpoint and proceeded to drive at a garda at speed, forcing him to take evasive action to avoid being struck.<\/p>\n<p>He is also charged with dangerous driving in the same place. The third charge is one of intoxicated driving.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that Allen drove with cocaine and cannabis in his system at the R632 in Shanagarry South.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/nurse-found-body-of-man-in-large-pool-of-congealed-blood-murder-trial-hears-1921642.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/nurse-found-body-of-man-in-large-pool-of-congealed-blood-murder-trial-hears-1921642.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3966472-12-articlelarge-dan-20michaelfoley-201.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"Nurse Found Body Of Man In 'Large Pool Of Congealed Blood', Murder Trial Hears\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Nurse found body of man in &#8216;large pool of congealed blood&#8217;, murder trial hears<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fourth charge relates to an alleged assault of a garda at Shanagarry South, Ballycotton, whilst the fifth charge is for unlawful possession of ketamine in the same place.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth charge is that Mr Allen had a knife with a sharply pointed blade at Shanagarry South.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh charge involves him allegedly resisting a garda in the execution of his duty at Shanagarry South.<\/p>\n<p>The eighth charge is of assault causing harm to a garda at Shanagarry South whilst the ninth charge allegedly occurred in Shanagarry North and relates to dangerous driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua Allen has appeared before a court in Co Cork to face charges which include assaulting two garda\u00ed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-530286","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\/530286","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=530286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}