{"id":47870,"date":"2025-09-06T20:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47870\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:10:14","slug":"marianne-smyth-ira-chief-heiress-nfl-cheerleader-satanic-priestess-jennifer-aniston-the-false-faces-of-woman-who-swindled-gaa-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47870\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Smyth: IRA chief, heiress, NFL cheerleader, Satanic priestess, Jennifer Aniston &#8211; The false faces of woman who swindled GAA hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The American conwoman, found guilty in a Co Down court of swindling four people out of \u00a3115,000 before fleeing back to the US, constantly reinvented herself, lying to and stealing from her friends, neighbours and even a Hollywood producer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marianne Smyth's various looks down the years (Photos: Johnathan Walton\/PSNI)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/531a7c2f-f468-4422-b555-595bb18dd45f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Marianne Smyth&#8217;s various looks down the years (Photos: Johnathan Walton\/PSNI)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The voice on the recording was high-pitched, American and filled with self-importance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWe took a council vote because I told Mary (Lou) McDonald and Michelle O\u2019Neill they have 24 hours to claim their seats and get it sorted or they need to walk,\u201d the woman said down the phone to a man in Bingham, Maine, New England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American conwoman, found guilty in a Co Down court of swindling four people out of \u00a3115,000 before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,26214,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-47870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-kurtis-reid","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47870","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=47870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}