Woman gets two-year suspended term after four-hour stand-off

A house was barricaded with a stove as a woman armed herself with a knife and three men armed themselves with implements including golf clubs, an iron bar, and a machete, and taunted gardaí during a four-hour late-night stand-off with gardaí.

The woman involved in this violent disorder — Chloe Walsh, aged 23, of 3 Knockbrogan, Bandon, Co Cork — yesterday received a two-year suspended jail sentence.

While a television was thrown out through an upstairs window at the height of the violence, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin accepted from Garda evidence that Walsh was not involved in the most serious aspects of the incident.