Enda Carroll ordered community service for assault

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Enda Carroll was ordered to complete 240 hours of community service for assault causing harm at the Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 24 October 2014. He was found guilty after a trial of assault causing harm, resisting a police officer and two public-order offences. The offences occurred on William Street in Tullamore on 12 March 2012.

Carroll had slammed Garda Lucy McLoughlin into a shop front, causing injuries to her hip joint and knee that required extensive hospital treatment. The community service was imposed in lieu of a two-year jail sentence, and the court noted that Carroll had written an apology to the garda.