{"id":202861,"date":"2025-11-27T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202861\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:03:08","slug":"irish-mma-fighter-sinead-kavanagh-freed-on-bail-after-arrest-on-ryanair-flight-in-gran-canaria-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202861\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish MMA fighter Sinead Kavanagh freed on bail after arrest on Ryanair flight in Gran Canaria \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish MMA fighter Sinead Kavanagh<\/a> has been released on bail by a Spanish court after being arrested on board a Ryanair flight from Gran Canaria to Dublin.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old was detained on Monday after allegedly attacking two Guardia Civil officers called to deal with a disturbance on the flight. She spent the night in a police cell before appearing in court in Telde, Gran Canaria. <\/p>\n

The featherweight fighter was released on bail but remains under investigation for alleged assault and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n

A court source said she had declined to answer questions from the judge. \u201cShe declined to testify and the court agreed to provisionally release her,\u201d the source said. \u201cThe investigating magistrate is now awaiting a forensic expert to determine the extent of the officers\u2019 injuries so it can determine whether this can be resolved as a minor offence or misdemeanour or needs to go to trial as a more serious offence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another source said Ms Kavanagh will be summoned to appear in court if a trial is scheduled. \u201cIf she doesn\u2019t comply a European Arrest Warrant would be issued as is the norm in these cases with tourists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardia Civil said officers were\u00a0 called by the pilot because two passengers were causing problems on board the plane as it was about to take off. \u201cOne of those passengers resisted and got into a tussle with officers and ended up being arrested,\u201d the police said. <\/p>\n

Ryanair said in a statement: \u201cThe crew of this flight from Gran Canaria to Dublin called ahead for police assistance before departure after two passengers became disruptive on board. These passengers were offloaded before this flight continued to Dublin. <\/p>\n

\u201cRyanair has a strict zero tolerance policy towards passenger misconduct and will continue to take decisive action to combat unruly passenger behaviour, ensuring that all passengers and crew travel in a respectful and stress-free environment, without unnecessary disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Sinead Kavanagh\u2019s brutal road from turmoil and tragedy to MMA stardomOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Ms Kavanagh, from Inchicore in Dublin, was a five-time national boxing champion and competed alongside Katie Taylor on the Irish team that went to the World Championships in 2021. She later quit boxing and became an MMA fighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish MMA fighter Sinead Kavanagh has been released on bail by a Spanish court after being arrested on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,623,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-202861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-ryanair","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115621331310970061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202861","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=202861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}