Tensions between two Cork men spill over into violence after blown kisses

Tensions between two men spilled over into an exchange of blows on the side of the street after one of them blew kisses at the other.

Costica Coker, aged 45, stepped out of his house at Orchard Court, Blackpool, Cork, to find Stewart Walsh, aged 25, with an address at Silversprings Lawn, Mayfield, across the road smoking a cigarette outside his relative’s house in Orchard Court.

There had been bad blood between the parties for a few years prior to this, Judge Olann Kelleher noted at the end of a 90-minute trial at Cork District Court yesterday. He convicted both men of assaulting the other and said that instead of serving five months in prison, they could do community service instead, 240 hours for Walsh and 200 for Coker, differentiated on the basis of the extent of their previous convictions.