Man pleads guilty to naming Boy B on social media
Updated / Thursday, 17 Dec 2020
20:42
Dunphy pleaded guilty in Listowel to the single charge and he was convicted and fined €600
A 35-year-old man has been handed down a conviction for contravening the Children Act in naming a teenage murderer on social media.
Glen Dunphy told gardaí he sought out and published the name of a teenager convicted of the murder of a girl because he had daughters himself, a court was told.
The father-of-two, of Lartigue Village, Listowel, was summonsed before Listowel District Court in November, on a single allegation that he had published the name of Boy B - a person whose identity is protected by the Children Act 2001 as a child in proceedings before the Central Criminal Court - on his Twitter account .