2021-11-26
Oil rig worker who racially abused taxi driver and attacked garda avoids jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Passing sentence today, Judge Martin Nolan said it goes without saying that Foran "behaved disgracefully" by participating in the racial abuse of the taxi-driver, assaulting him and then assaulting the garda while resisting arrest. Judge Nolan sentenced Foran to two-and-a-half years imprisonment but suspended the sentence in its entirety on strict conditions, including that within one year he collect €5,000 for transmission to the garda.