Man to be sentenced for Republican plot graffiti

The legal challenge in the Cork District Court case against a man accused of painting graffiti on headstones at a Republican plot in Cork’s St Finbarr’s cemetery was resolved by the High Court and the accused faced sentencing yesterday.

David Cooper, aged 52, who lives at an apartment at 7 Southern Rd, Cork, was back before Cork District Court to be sentenced on a charge of causing criminal damage by writing graffiti on headstones at the cemetery on March 28/29, 2014.

Evidence was given previously that the graffiti was daubed onto the headstones shortly before the Easter commemorations.