Anne Fennell pleads guilty to priest harassment

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Anne Fennell pleaded guilty to harassment at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 20 January 2016.

The charges concerned harassment of Fr Desmond Byrne by telephone in Clondalkin on dates between October 2005 and October 2006.

Fennell also pleaded guilty to persistent annoying calls and obscene or menacing messages involving several public offices during 2014.

Judge Patricia Ryan adjourned the harassment sentence hearing until July and remanded Fennell on continuing bail.