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A PRISONER WHO threw a bucket of excrement over a prison officer has had his stay in prison prolonged by two months.
Ian Quinn (38) of St Aongus Park, Tallaght, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting a peace officer in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin 7, on January 30, 2019.
Garda David Graham told Karl Finnegan BL, prosecuting, that Officer Colin Ryan knew the accused and had spoken with him earlier that morning.
Garda Graham said that after lunch, Officer Ryan was walking across a prison landing when the cell doors opened. Over his shoulder he noticed someone running towards him and saw Quinn approaching with a bucket in hand.
Quinn threw the contents of the bucket into Officer Ryan’s face and over his uniform. Officer Ryan initially thought the contents might be boiling water, but after a few seconds he realised it was excrement.
The excrement went into his mouth, his eyes, his boots and his radio. After throwing the excrement, Quinn ran back to his cell.
All of Officer Ryan’s equipment had to be thrown out. He was traumatised by the incident, he did not know where the excrement came from or if it carried a disease. He was considered unfit to return to work for four weeks due to distress.
Quinn is currently serving a two-and-a-half year sentence for production of an article in the course of a dispute. The court heard that he produced a knife while in prison and waved it at prison staff.
Garda Graham said he believed Quinn had a drug debt and did the act to clear that debt.
Mark Lynam BL, defending, said his understanding of the incident was that it was based on an argument his client had with the prison officer that morning.
Lynam said his client spent six months in solitary confinement as punishment for the incident and had spent practically all his adult life in prison.
Judge Martin Nolan commented that to say the defendant was not a good prisoner was an understatement. He said it was a “pretty low assault” which was nasty and ridiculing.
Judge Nolan sentenced Quinn to two months imprisonment, which he ordered to run consecutively to the two-and-a-half year sentence he is currently serving.
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That’ll be the fishermen .As a regular salmon angler on the Moy the vast majority of fishermen I meet on the waters are German.They love out salmon waters especially the moy and the erriff back at the beautiful Leenane!
Used Knock for the first time last month – €10 ‘development fee’ before you can depart via the airport. Do the math – nice tidy sum they rake in!!!
Yeah its time to bin that scam if numbers are so impressive.
At least you can see where they spent it. Knock airport was some hole not too long ago.
@ Rodger, it costs me a lot more than €10 in fuel and time to drive to Dublin Airport, a scam is something underhand, the fee is clear to anyone flying and well worth it for sheer convenience.
Taxes at Dublin airport are a lot more than any other airport in Ireland
The other airports have similar fees, the only difference being that they hidden in the airline’s taxes and charges.
But you get to see the other airport charges at booking stage when deciding whether to book or not.
In Knocks case it’s not as clear for 1st time passengers, especially families who are trying to vacation on a budget and they only find out about the €50 charge when thru arrive at the airport!
I remember Father Horan’s miracle,an airport built right on top of a windswept bog,even though he had no money he went ahead and built it anyway,even now he must be directing the tourist traffic from heaven, a truly inspirational story.
richard:
I rember some of the kafuffle around the Airport & Father Horan,
when you think how bad the Irish economy was then , he had some liathroidi.
He should be an example to us in the current recession, he did not ask the gov’t to help him he helped his own community despite the gov’t
In the words of Christy Moore …. Did NATO donate the Dome ?
Longest runway in the country when it was built ….
Knock airport is great, nice and quick in and out, especially with 3 kids, not much walking, got bags fairly sharpish. €10 doesn’t bother me at all, great service and with a smile. Also I find pricing flights cheaper in Knock by up to 50% to the sunnier destinations :)
That’s the lads working on our gas line that we gave away thanks to Bertie and Ray
In the words of Miley – well holy god.
Knock Airport is of huge benefit. Convenient, cheap parking, friendly staff etc.
As for the €10 Development Fund
WELL WORTH IT
Great to see Knock going from strength to strength.. the €10 charge is put directly towards new development at the airport which we have seen over the past few years with more to come in the near future..
I used Knock twice in last 2 years – hate the 10.00 charge and you have no choice but to pay it. Both times the landings were terrifying the airport is do exposed and windswept – even the people sitting beside me said its always like that – scary
I can’t belive there has not been a negative comment yet about the Church’s involvment in the setting up of this airport. Surlely we can find some blame here.
Germans taking over, through the back door and god by their side?
Knock knock, who’s there? The Germans.
SPYS!!
Oh hang on, they already know what’s happening.
INFORMERS???
I didn’t think the germans were known for superstitious beliefs.
They must be taking a shortcut to end as gaff
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