An intruder who broke into a primary school, vandalised a classroom and caused more than €2,500 worth of damage was drinking heavily and on crack cocaine at the time, a court heard.
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A plumber who was thrown out of a bar after a funeral drunkenly told gardaí they had no right to tell him to go home, a court heard.
Aidan Whelan (25) thought he was sticking up for himself when he told officers he would be returning to the pub.
Judge Dermot Dempsey ordered Whelan to donate €300 to charity and pay €150 compensation to gardaí and struck out the charges, leaving him without a conviction.
The defendant, of Castlegrange Avenue, Swords, admitted public drunkenness, threatening and abusive behaviour and failing to follow garda directions last January 31.
Garda Philip Walsh told Swords District Court that officers went to the scene following reports that a man had been thrown out of a pub on Brackenstown Road, Swords.