Man jailed over ‘vile’ text messages

A 39-year-old Limerick man has been jailed for sending text messages to his former landlady, one of which said she should go and pick out a headstone for herself.

Eugene Quigley, aged 39, of 1 Steele’s Terrace, Ennis, was jailed by Judge Patrick Durcan for four months and fined the maximum €800 for what the judge called “vile and vicious” texts.

In one of eight text messages, which Inspector Tom Kennedy told Ennis District court were all sent on the afternoon of Oct 17 last, Mr Quigley told Carmel Corbett that she should go and pick out a headstone for herself.