{"id":701635,"date":"2026-07-20T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701635\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:49:11","slug":"skerries-man-charged-after-car-rammed-into-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701635\/","title":{"rendered":"Skerries: Man charged after car rammed into crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 29-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving after a car was driven into a crowd in County Dublin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage of the incident, on Harbour Road, Skerries, has been widely shared on social media and appears to show people fighting in the area and a car being driven at a group of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three teenagers, two girls and a boy, were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the incident, Irish broadcaster RT\u00c9 has reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sean McGlone, from Beechwood Drive in Drogheda, appeared before Balbriggan District Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard that McGlone was arrested in his home at about 18:00 local time on Sunday on suspicion of the driving offence of endangerment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was then taken to the Garda (Irish police) station where he was charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An application for bail was made and the officer did not object, so long as a number of conditions were imposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Stephanie Coggins granted bail on his own bond of \u20ac5,000 with a lodgement of \u20ac1,000 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McGlone, who drives a van as part of his job, must sign on three times a week and avoid the Balbriggan and Skerries area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He must not have any contact with witnesses, should not consume alcohol and he should be of good behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving after a car was driven into a crowd in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-701635","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}