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Man who kicked out at sergeant and patrol car avoids conviction and pays €400 to Garda social fund
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A man charged with a number of public order offences, including kicking out at arresting gardaí, was ordered to pay €400 to the Garda Social Fund and avoided conviction under Section 1(2) of the Probation of Offenders Act.
Dmitrij Daciuk, 32 Thomond Court, Ballymahon, appeared before Judge Seamus Hughes at last week’s sitting of Longford District Court.
Sgt Mark Mahon, for the state, explained that, at 8.30pm on March 22, 2021, gardaí were conducting a checkpoint at Thomond Court, Ballymahon when they observed a vehicle turning away.
Two Longford men who fought in street ‘terrified of going to jail’
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Two men who appeared before Longford District Court last week charged with public order offences have been ordered to pay €300 each to go towards the Garda Social Fund.
Michael Dempsey, 79 MacEoin Park, Longford, and Johnny Doyle, 82, Ardnacassa Avenue, Longford, were chargd with involvement in a public disturbance on January 11, 2020.
On that night, Gardaí received a call at 12.25am reporting a disturbance between a number of young people in Oakvale.
Mr Dempsey, the court heard, had taken his top off and was shouting abuse. He continued fighting in the street, was in an intoxicated state and subsequently arrested by gardaí.