Jailed over threat to burn homes of gardaí

A Ballincollig man who said he knew where a number gardaí lived and was going to burn down their homes was jailed for a year yesterday.

Judge David Riordan said that while the jail term must allow for the rehabilitation of the accused, it must also “put the brakes on his offending proclivities”.

At Cork Circuit Criminal Court, Aran Shanahan, aged 20, of Pine Walk, Muskerry Estate, Ballincollig, Co Cork, and Highfield Park, Ballincollig, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with the second year suspended provided that he remained under the direction of the probation service for a year after his release from jail. He was also ordered not to go within 500m of the homes of two gardaí, and to remain away from a housing estate where a number of gardaí reside, for four years.