{"id":457238,"date":"2025-09-28T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457238\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:31:13","slug":"brendan-glackin-ex-ni-u19-footballer-peddled-drugs-for-new-ira-linked-criminal-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457238\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Glackin: Ex-NI U19 footballer peddled drugs for New IRA-linked criminal\u00a0gang"},"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\">Striker\u2019s fall from grace after being jailed for possession of cocaine and supplying cannabis\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brendan Glackin while playing for Northern Ireland's underage side (left) and in a photo supplied by the PSNI (right).\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a28a7f4-e1fb-4f35-b510-7b363374a49e.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)\">Brendan Glackin while playing for Northern Ireland&#8217;s underage side (left) and in a photo supplied by the PSNI (right).<\/p>\n<p>Sunday Life Investigations<\/p>\n<p>Today at 08:00<\/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)\">A Northern Ireland international youth footballer ended up dealing drugs for a New IRA-linked crime gang headed up by a convicted blackmailer.<\/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)\">Brendan Glackin\u2019s fall from grace was detailed in Belfast Crown Court last week when he was jailed for 15 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Striker\u2019s fall from grace after being jailed for possession of cocaine and supplying cannabis Brendan Glackin while playing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,8538,16,15,6110],"class_list":{"0":"post-457238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-west-belfast-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115280523380533621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}