{"id":121097,"date":"2025-10-14T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/121097\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:15:12","slug":"dad-who-cut-car-clamp-was-under-pressure-to-get-daughters-debs-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/121097\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad who cut car clamp was \u2018under pressure\u2019 to get daughter\u2019s debs balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Craig Strickland pleaded guilty. Photo: Irish Photo Desk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/71d89f0f-4fc2-44e9-8ec0-c65b34e21da5.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)\">Craig Strickland pleaded guilty. Photo: Irish Photo Desk<\/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 father of four who cut a clamp off his car at a shopping centre was \u201cunder pressure\u201d and on his way to pick up balloons for his daughter\u2019s debs.<\/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)\">Craig Strickland (43) had to \u201crun in\u201d to the centre to get food for one of his children but when he came out, he found his car clamped and removed it, causing damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Strickland pleaded guilty. Photo: Irish Photo Desk A father of four who cut a clamp off his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[956,39078,79,32511,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-121097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-andrew-phelan","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-dublin-courts","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121097","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=121097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}