A Ballyhaunis man who pleaded guilty to a public order charge and an assault of a technical nature was ordered to pay €250 to the St Vincent De Paul with no further orders made by Judge Dennis McLoughlin in Ballyhaunis District Court this week.
The court was told that at 4am on July 3, 2011 the Gardaí were called to an incident on Main Street, Ballyhaunis. When they arrived the defendant Joe McQueeney, Main Street, Ballyhaunis had left the scene. However the Gardaí waited in the vicinity and observed the scene. At 4.30am McQueeney was spotted by gardaí crossing the street and carrying out an assault of a technical nature on another man where he grabbed the other man and tried to assault him. The gardaí then moved in and arrested McQueeney who was very drunk and shouting at them as they arrested him.
The court was told that McQueeney was a 39-year-old single man who fully accepted that he was in the wrong on the night in question and has very little memory of the incident. The court was also told that he had apologised to the individual involved in the days after the incident, which had been accepted by the injured party, and the whole thing had been very out of character. Judge McLoughlin ordered McQueeney to pay €250 and made no further order.
