A man from Drogheda who previously worked for IRMS in Mayo, was before Ballina District Court on Tuesday where he was sentenced to prison for three months arising out of two public order charges.
Garda Petrina Devery outlined that on Saturday June 13 2009 at 2.25am Richard Kinsella, 1 The Greene, Millmount Abbey, Drogheda, Co Louth, was arrested following a report that four men were causing a scene on Quay Road, Ballina, where they were roaring and shouting.
Kinsella was observed to be in an intoxicated state and was directed to leave the scene. When Garda Devery drove off and then turned the patrol car around she observed the defendant standing in the middle of the road with his shirt off and he was roaring and shouting. Kinsella was then arrested.
A number of previous convictions for the defendant were read out in court, which included jail sentences, however it later transpired that these convictions were appealed in the Circuit Court.
Kinsella, who represented himself, pleaded guilty to the charges and apologised to the court for his actions. The defendant was asked by Judge Mary Devins as to why he was in the Ballina area to which he replied that he had been working as an IRMS employee in Mayo before he lost his job.
Judge Devins asked Kinsella how, with his previous record, he got a job with IRMS as the judge referred to an article she read that morning in The Irish Times which outlined the stringent vetting criteria which IRMS employees undergo.
For being threatening and abusive in a public are Kinsella was convicted and fined €300 and sentenced to three months in prison. For failing to comply with the direction of a garda the defendant was convicted and fined €300 and sentenced to two months in prison concurrent.
Later in court proceedings the defendant consulted with solicitor John Gordon to apply for the judge to fix recognisances.
