Aaron O’Neill ordered community service for hoax bomb call

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Aaron O’Neill was ordered to complete 200 hours of community service in lieu of a two-year prison term for making a false report at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 20 January 2016.

The order followed a favourable probation report, and Judge Melanie Greally confirmed that Judge Martin Nolan’s sentence would apply. O’Neill was given one year to complete the work.

The false report involved asking Colin Hammond to make a hoax bomb call to Intel because O’Neill did not want to go to work. The resulting emergency response closed a motorway, disrupted air traffic control and prevented 4,000 employees from entering the site, Garda Eamonn McFadden said.