Ex-HSE official fined €500 for assaulting TV3 cameraman outside court

A former HSE official has been fined for assaulting a TV3 cameraman outside a courthouse and given a suspended jail term for daubing offensive graffiti on cemetery headstones at a Republican plot in Cork.

Ex-HSE official fined €500 for assaulting TV3 cameraman outside court

Judge Olann Kelleher imposed a six-month suspended sentence on David Cooper for causing criminal damage to the headstones in March 2013.

The judge said although he was only dealing with the offence of causing criminal damage, he had to be conscious of the worry caused to other people by the nature of the graffiti, which was “designed to put them in fear”.

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