A Ballyhaunis man who had 35 previous convictions, including 25 for public order offences and two for assault causing harm, was given a total of six months in prison this week after he pleaded guilty to two more public order offences.
The court was told that on May 28 2010, gardaí were called to the Corner Bar, Main Street, Ballyhaunis, where Simon McDonnagh, 16 The Maples, Ballyhaunis, was drinking. He had been asked to leave the pub and refused and had become aggressive towards other people in the pub. When the gardaí arrived they brought McDonnagh outside and offered to bring him home, he continued to be aggressive and ripped his shirt off and was arrested by gardaí. When they got him in the back of the patrol car, he tried to headbutt the gardaí and break the window at the back of the patrol car by kicking it.
For threatening, abusive, or insulting behaviour in a public place he was convicted and fined €300 and sentenced to three months in prison, and for failing to comply with the direction of a member of An Garda Síochána he was convicted and fined €300 and sentenced to three months in prison to be served consecutively.
