SEVEN MONTHS IN PRISON FOR DISTURBANCE IN RESIDENTIAL AREA

Date Published: 11-Nov-2008

A city man has been given a seven-month prison sentence for resisting arrest and for breaching the peace following a late night disturbance in Knocknacarra35 year old Kevin McDonagh of 60 Slí Burca, Ballymoneen Road entered a late guilty plea to resisting arrest at Slí Burca in August He also pleaded guilty to breaching the peace and to being drunk in public on the same dateGarda Dermot Cummins told the court he received three anonymous phone calls from residents at Fana Burca and later Slí Burca over a one and a half hour period in the early hours of August 5 Garda Cummins said the first call from residents at 3 a.m. and he eventually arrested McDonagh, following the third complaint, at 4.25 a.m. Judge Fahy observed Garda Cummins was called out on three occasions that night because people in those housing estates could not sleep