{"id":475249,"date":"2025-10-05T06:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475249\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:16:36","slug":"paul-creaney-portadown-man-accused-of-central-role-in-riots-denied-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475249\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Creaney: Portadown man accused of \u2018central\u2019 role in riots denied bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police during disturbances in Portadown over the summer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/e8a5bc21-bd25-4b71-9909-73a7bb2a3dc0.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)\">Police during disturbances in Portadown over the summer<\/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 Portadown man accused of playing a \u201ccentral\u201d and directing role in anti-immigration rioting in the town has been refused bail over concerns he would commit further offences.<\/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)\">Paul Creaney appeared at Craigavon Magistrates Court last Friday via videolink from Maghaberry Prison where he is on remand charged with riotous behaviour, resisting police, assault on police, rioting and possessing Class C drug Zopiclone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police during disturbances in Portadown over the summer A Portadown man accused of playing a \u201ccentral\u201d and directing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[779,73935,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-475249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-armagh-news","9":"tag-ni-protests","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115320100616442544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475249","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=475249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}