{"id":259537,"date":"2025-12-31T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259537\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:48:09","slug":"pregnant-driver-tests-positive-for-cocaine-in-tipperary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/259537\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant driver tests positive for cocaine in Tipperary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The drug test that returned a positive indication for cocaine. Photo: An Garda Sioch\u00e1na Tipperary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b3370689-0235-4bce-8e70-23ba58ab98eb.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)\">The drug test that returned a positive indication for cocaine. Photo: An Garda Sioch\u00e1na Tipperary<\/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 pregnant woman who was stopped after it was noticed she was evading a garda checkpoint in north Tipperary, later tested positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garda\u00ed were conducting a mandatory intoxicant checkpoint when they noticed a vehicle trying to evade the checkpoint, said a garda spokesperson on Tuesday, December 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cGarda\u00ed attached to Killaloe Garda Station went and spoke to the female driver. Thanks to the garda mobility device, it was discovered that the driver was uninsured. The driver was tested at the road side for alcohol and drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The drug test returned a positive indication for cocaine and the pregnant driver was arrested and processed at Nenagh Garda Station. The results of the blood sample are awaited. The car was also seized, added the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The drug test that returned a positive indication for cocaine. Photo: An Garda Sioch\u00e1na Tipperary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b3370689-0235-4bce-8e70-23ba58ab98eb.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)\">The drug test that returned a positive indication for cocaine. Photo: An Garda Sioch\u00e1na Tipperary<\/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)\">Today&#8217;s News in 90 seconds &#8211; 31st December  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The drug test that returned a positive indication for cocaine. Photo: An Garda Sioch\u00e1na Tipperary A pregnant woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,25972,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-259537","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-eoin-kelleher","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-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115813318942089965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259537","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=259537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}