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A LIMERICK man who assaulted a bar staff member after he was refused entry to a pub during a festival in Sixmilebridge, has been jailed for three months.
But Thomas Power (43), of Sul- lane Crescent, Raheen, Limerick, will not serve time, if he carries out 200 hours community service.
Shannon District Court was told that the accused struck a Mr Hunt, after he was refused entry at The
Mill Bar, Sixmilebridge, on Janu- ary 8, 2005.
Defending solicitor Daragh Has- sett told the court his client was in Sixmilebridge for a festival that day. A session was taking place at the back of the bar and when he was not allowed in, he hit out.
He said his client had problems with alcohol and had “fallen off the wagon” over the years. He said the incident was a “watershed” for his client and he had not drank al-
cohol since it took place.
Judge Joseph Mangan adjourned the case until November, to allow for a community service report to be carried out and remanded the accused on bail until then. He 1m- posed a number of bail conditions, including that the accused abstain from alcohol, stay out of licensed premises, stay out of Clare, except for court attendances and report to Henry Street Garda Station in Limerick once a week in a “sober and orderly condition.”