{"id":10984,"date":"2025-08-20T06:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10984\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:44:08","slug":"man-helped-build-barrier-in-bid-to-prevent-gardai-seizing-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10984\/","title":{"rendered":"Man helped build barrier in bid to prevent garda\u00ed seizing vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Maughan drove on a footpath to escape garda\u00ed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cb210db2-b394-4abe-b8c4-760fadc7f35e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Maughan drove on a footpath to escape garda\u00ed<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A man behaved \u201coutrageously\u201d when he helped construct a makeshift barrier from scraps of metal and timber to stop garda\u00ed seizing a car from a Dublin halting site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a random traffic stop an hour later, Michael Maughan endangered the public when he mounted a footpath in his vehicle and drove through a pedestrian crossing to prevent officers confiscating his truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Maughan drove on a footpath to escape garda\u00ed A man behaved \u201coutrageously\u201d when he helped construct a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,8661,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-10984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-shane-phelan","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}