2018-01-18
"Decent lad" got "carried away" during Jobstown protest and threw rock through garda car window
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Credit: Collins) A man who admitted throwing a rock through the rear window of a garda car at a water charges protest in Tallaght in 2014 has been given a fully suspended sentence of two and a half years. Passing sentence today, Judge Martin Nolan accepted that Collins had remorse for what he had done and said it would be unfair to imprison him.