Leanne Goode given suspended sentence for DART assault

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Leanne Goode was given a four-year sentence, suspended for four years, for assault causing harm at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 16 November 2015. The assault happened on a northbound DART between Killiney and Dun Laoghaire stations on 13 July 2013.

Goode was convicted of assaulting Paula McCarthy but acquitted of charges involving Richard McCarthy, breaching the peace and being intoxicated in public. The court ordered two years of probation supervision and participation in anger-management and restorative-justice programmes if directed.