Man has ‘habit’ of calling emergency services after rows

A 39-year-old man has gotten into the habit of calling the emergency services — both the ambulance and the gardaí — if he has an argument with his fiancée, Listowel District Court was told.

Patrick Butler of Dromnacurra, Causeway, Co Kerry, pleaded guilty to what his solicitor described as “a dressed-up” section 4 charge under the Public Order Act, of intoxication in a public place on August 3 after both the ambulance and gardaí found him in an intoxicated condition on the road outside his address.

He had been drinking all night and in the early morning he decided to call the emergency services to come to his home at Dromnacurra, Superintendent Dan Keane, prosecuting, outlined to the court.