Bacon and cabbage ‘bribe’ to cut mother’s lawn

A 50-year-old man told a court he was “bribed” by the offer of home- cooked bacon and cabbage to cut the back lawn of his mother’s property — but insisted he ate the meal with mustard on the porch and believed he did not breach an order not to enter her home.

Donal Cosgrave was willing to produce the shoes with the grass still on them to back up his story, Killarney District Court was told yesterday.

Donal Cosgrave of West End, Rathmore, was arrested for breach of contravening a barring order made on July 1.