{"id":283069,"date":"2026-01-14T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283069\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:08:11","slug":"judge-who-said-cyclists-have-become-a-nightmare-sparks-backlash-but-he-had-his-own-run-in-with-road-safety-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283069\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge who said cyclists have become \u2018a nightmare\u2019 sparks backlash \u2013 but he had his own run-in with road safety laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Judge James O\u2019Donohoe was fined \u20ac600 in 2012 for failing to provide breath sample\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Judge James O'Donohoe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b806c076-f878-4a57-8766-479401d0ba21.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)\">Judge James O&#8217;Donohoe<\/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 judge has incurred the wrath of the pedal power population for saying that \u201ccyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin\u201d.<\/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)\">\u201cYou never know with cyclists what they are going to do or anticipate what they are going to do,\u201d Judge James O\u2019Donohoe said this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge James O\u2019Donohoe was fined \u20ac600 in 2012 for failing to provide breath sample Judge James O&#8217;Donohoe A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,32511,18,13,14,18613,18577,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,1181,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-283069","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-dublin-courts","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fionnan-sheahan","15":"tag-green-party","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-rte","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115891018388671513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283069","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=283069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}