{"id":112338,"date":"2026-08-27T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/112338\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:06:25","slug":"irish-man-charged-after-stolen-taxi-driven-wrong-way-on-dual-carriageway-in-wales-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/112338\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish man charged after stolen taxi driven wrong way on dual carriageway in Wales \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Irish man has been charged after police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wales\/\">Wales<\/a> stopped a stolen taxi that was travelling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wrong-way-driving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/wrong-way-driving\/\">wrong way<\/a> down a dual carriageway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">North Wales Police said the car, which had been reported stolen from Holyhead, Anglesey, was stopped while travelling the wrong way down the A55 on Monday evening after a crash with a cyclist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Darragh O\u2019Grady (31), of no fixed abode but from Ireland, was charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving, dangerous driving, aggravated taking of a vehicle and other driving offences, the force said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is also charged with other offences including theft and fraud by false representation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier this week the force said the cyclist, who was involved in the crash on London Road in Holyhead, was in hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The car entered the A55 westbound travelling the wrong way but was safely stopped by officers between Rhosneigr and Rhostrehwfa after the road was closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">O\u2019Grady has been remanded in custody to appear at Caernarfon Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A police spokesman said: \u201cAt the current time, there is no evidence to indicate that the incidents on Monday evening were filmed for the purposes of uploading to social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis continues to be an active investigation and therefore we urge people not to speculate on the details of the incident or the motivations behind it.\u201d \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irish man has been charged after police in Wales stopped a stolen taxi that was travelling the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[29946,5,6,38,46176],"class_list":["post-112338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-holyhead-port","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","tag-wrong-way-driving"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117168333252840024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}