{"id":293576,"date":"2026-01-20T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293576\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:54:09","slug":"businessman-nicknamed-the-vet-off-the-hook-with-the-family-gang-after-taking-fall-for-e10m-cocaine-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293576\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman nicknamed \u2018The Vet\u2019 off the hook with \u2018The Family\u2019 gang after taking fall for \u20ac10m cocaine haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Murphy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f8a472a8-cafd-4b24-b870-869b267c1673.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)\">Michael Murphy<\/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)\">Michael Murphy, the career criminal known as \u201cThe Vet,\u201d is now believed to be largely off the hook with \u201cThe Family\u201d gang after pleading guilty to possessing \u20ac10.6 million worth of cocaine.<\/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)\">It is understood his decision to accept responsibility has eased the threat against him, avoiding the scrutiny a full trial could have brought on those behind the shipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Murphy Michael Murphy, the career criminal known as \u201cThe Vet,\u201d is now believed to be largely off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,23,12,15,16,5,81745,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-293576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latest-news-ticker","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-news-in-90-seconds","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115926352919837842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293576","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=293576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}