{"id":142505,"date":"2025-10-24T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142505\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:23:08","slug":"money-sent-back-to-limerick-woman-who-tried-repeatedly-to-pay-a-speeding-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142505\/","title":{"rendered":"Money sent back to Limerick woman who tried repeatedly to pay a speeding fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WOMAN who was caught driving 20km over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/463\/crime-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">speed limit<\/a> could not pay a fine because she didn\u2019t have a licence and her money was posted back to her.<\/p>\n<p>On March 30 of this year, the 45-year-old woman with an address in Croom, County Limerick, was stopped by garda\u00ed for driving 80km in a 60km zone.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that she was forthcoming and said that she didn\u2019t have a licence, that she\u2019s never had a licence and was not insured. \u201cI\u2019m guilty\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/education\/1925262\/ul-officially-begins-search-for-visionary-leader-as-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UL officially begins search for \u2018visionary leader\u2019 as president<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She tried to pay the fine online and it could not be processed, then she sent money by post and it was sent back to her.<\/p>\n<p>Because she does not have a licence, the penalty points could not be attached to a licence and the fine payment could not be processed and the payment was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Karen Dowling accepted that there were difficult circumstances in the woman\u2019s life and that she is caring for children and said: \u201cthat\u2019s a first &#8211; money getting sent back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman told the court: \u201cThey were refusing my money &#8211; I tried.\u201d The case was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WOMAN who was caught driving 20km over the speed limit could not pay a fine because she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,19715,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,1844,15,16,7589,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-142505","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-district-court","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-limerick","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-newcastle-west","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115428655425895554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142505","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=142505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}