{"id":314720,"date":"2026-02-01T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/314720\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:21:12","slug":"how-retired-superintendent-eamonn-oneill-was-left-traumatised-after-horror-of-garda-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/314720\/","title":{"rendered":"How retired superintendent Eamonn O\u2019Neill was left traumatised after \u2018horror\u2019 of garda investigation"},"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\">Solicitor calls for public inquiry into policing methods after Mr O\u2019Neill, his wife and three other garda\u00ed were cleared in traffic tickets probe\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left, the five garda\u00ed who were cleared in the investigation: Garda Tom McGlinchey, Garda Colm Geary, retired superintendent Eamonn O\u2019Neill, Sergeant Michelle Leahy and Sergeant Anne-Marie Hassett. Photos: Brendan Gleeson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gardai cleared.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)\">From left, the five garda\u00ed who were cleared in the investigation: Garda Tom McGlinchey, Garda Colm Geary, retired superintendent Eamonn O\u2019Neill, Sergeant Michelle Leahy and Sergeant Anne-Marie Hassett. Photos: Brendan Gleeson<\/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)\">The retired superintendent who was acquitted of attempting to pervert the court of justice suffered \u201chorrendously\u201d during a six-year investigation that ultimately led to nothing, his solicitor has said.<\/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)\">Eamonn O\u2019Neill, and his wife, Anne-Marie Hassett, a serving garda, are now to sue the force for damages after they and three garda colleagues were cleared of all charges of \u201csquaring\u201d traffic tickets, according to their legal representative, Dan O\u2019Gorman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solicitor calls for public inquiry into policing methods after Mr O\u2019Neill, his wife and three other garda\u00ed were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[22055,956,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,26735,11,12,5649,15,16,5765,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-314720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-alan-kelly","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jim-ocallaghan","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-maeve-sheehan","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115994643576556435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314720","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=314720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}