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AN EAST Clare man has received a suspended sentence after engaging in abusive behaviour towards gardaí in Ennis last year.
Keith Quigley (22) of Callaghy, Tuamgraney, pleaded guilty at Ennis District Court on Friday to engaging with abusive or insulting behaviour towards gardaí in Ennis town centre on September 20, 2010.
The court was told that on the night in question gardaí were called to Francis Street following a report of a “public order situation involving a number of people”.
Mr Quigley was not involved in the public order incident, the court heard.
Inspector Tom Kennedy told the court Mr Quigley was told by gardaí to leave the area but only moved a short distance away.
When Mr Quigley failed to leave, Inspector Kennedy said, Gardaí arrested him.
Solicitor for the accused Tara Godfrey told the court that her client was a 22-year-old single man. She ex – plained that her client lived 30 miles from Ennis and that on the night he had been waiting in Francis Street with some friends for a taxi home.
Ms Godfrey said an incident occurred that her client had no part in. She said her client accepted that he should have moved away when told to do so by gardaí.
“It was largely a misunderstand – ing,” she added.
The court was told that the man had previously been fined for a public order offence.
Judge Joseph Mangan passed down a two-month sentence, suspended on the condition that the man forthwith enters a bond to keep the peace and to be of good behaviour.
He also imposed a fine of € 500.