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A MAN caused € 3200 worth of damage after wandering into a holiday home in a “drunken stupor”, a court has heard.
David Quinn had been on a night out in Killaloe earlier this year when the incident occurred.
A sitting of Killaloe District Court heard that blood stains from a cut sustained by Quinn accounted for most of the damage.
Quinn (32) with an address at Killonan, Ballysimon, Limerick was charged with causing criminal damage at 42 Marine Village, Killaloe.
On Wednesday, Judge Aeneas McCarthy was told that the cost of the damage came to € 3200.
The court heard that Quinn had been attending a wedding in Killaloe. He later became locked out of his hotel room.
Solicitor Daragh Hassett said that his client had taken refuge in a nearby holiday home.
Prior to entering the house, the court heard, Quinn fell and cut himself.
Mr Hassett explained that when Quinn entered the holiday home he spilled blood on the carpet and some of the fixtures. He said his client had been in a “drunken stupor” at the time.
He said the blood stained carpet accounted for most of the cost of the damage.
Mr Hassett said that Quinn could pay compensation and requested that he be given six months to do so. Judge McCarthy ordered that Quinn pay € 3200 in compensation.
Granting him four months to make the payment, Judge McCarthy said that he expected the amount to be paid in full on April 3 (2012).
The judge added that he did not want compensation to be paid in installments.