Man fired air gun at head of pub-goer

An air rifle was fired at the back of a customer’s head at a pub in Buttevant by a paranoid man who thought people were talking behind his back and yesterday the culprit was jailed for two years.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a five-year jail sentence on Charles O’Callaghan of Killavoy, Banteer, Co Cork, and suspended the last three years of the sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Dermot Sheehan, defence barrister, said the accused who was remanded in custody earlier in the week for sentencing yesterday found the few days extremely hard in jail and felt that every day was like a year.