JUDGE WANTS CITY COUNCIL TO GIVE ROSE SELLER A LICENCE

Date Published: 06-Aug-2008

A District Court judge is hopeful that Galway City Council will consider granting a casual trading licence to a Romanian rose seller so that he can “go straight” from now on and ply his trade lawfully on the city’s streets.Judge Eamon O’Brien remarked that “the best gamekeeper is a former poacher”, when dealing with 24 year old Vasile Muntean of 114 River Forest, Leixlip, Co. Kildare.He pleaded guilty before the holiday sittings of Galway District Court this week to engaging in casual trading at Cross Street, Galway, on July 26 last without holding a casual trading licence.