A father and son have appeared before Mullingar District Court charged with public order offences.
The court heard that Paul Mason of Slanemore, Mullingar was providing “no example to his kids” including son Edward Busher of the same address.
Both appeared on public order charges.
Forty-five-year-old Mason pleaded guilty to shouting and roaring at gardaí in the middle of Grove Street at 1.45pm on Valentine’s day this year.
It took considerable time to persuade him to leave the situation, Inspector Fergus Treanor said and Mason was aggressive, telling gardaí to “f**k off”.
He was extremely drunk.
Ms Pauline Brady said her client was very remorseful for the incident and accepted that he has “a litany of previous convictions” totalling 14.
The father of four now realises this is not the way to go and wanted to offer “the most abject apology” to Garda Emer Finn who was on duty that day.
He had been at a party the previous night and still had alcohol in his system when he heard his wife had been robbed at their head shop in town which has since closed down.
Saying that no garda should have to put up with Mason’s behaviour, Judge Elizabeth McGrath imposed a two month suspended sentence for threatening behaviour and fined him €300 for drunkenness.
She advised Mason to “help yourself regarding your underlying alcohol problem”.
Eighteen-year-old Edward Busher had come to Garda attention just five minutes earlier when he began shouting and roaring and acting aggressively.
He has one previous conviction for assault causing harm.
Ms Brady said tempers were high after his mother was robbed and he had acted in the most inappropriate manner.
The robbery occurred while he was away from the shop and he had returned to find out about it.
Judge McGrath fined him €300 for threatening behaviour.
