{"id":434369,"date":"2026-04-14T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/434369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:30:18","slug":"cork-tractor-driver-arrested-at-whitegate-fuel-protest-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/434369\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork tractor driver arrested at Whitegate fuel protest charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a tractor and slurry tank who was arrested at Whitegate, Co Cork, has been charged with a number of serious road traffic offences, garda\u00ed have said.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitegate oil refinery was the site of a blockade during fuel protests over the last week, which was cleared by garda\u00ed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed said a tractor with a slurry tank approached a cordon checkpoint shortly after 2pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They said the vehicle was directed to stop by Garda members, but continued on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda\u00ed activated blue lights and sirens and pursued the tractor, which they say started \u201cdriving erratically, swerving into the opposite direction in an effort to get away from garda\u00ed and endangering other road users\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They said the tractor was stopped by uniform and plainclothes officers in marked and unmarked patrol cars and the driver, a man in his 20s, was arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a tractor and slurry tank who was arrested at Whitegate, Co Cork, has been charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,9168,7,8,192839],"class_list":["post-434369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-place-republic-of-ireland","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-whitegate"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116401892691456300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434369","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=434369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}