Son avoids jail after ‘attack’ on his mother

A suspended jail term was imposed yesterday on a man who flew into a rage in the family home and broke a table across his mother’s back.

Alex McSweeney, of 50 Cherry Lawn, Church Rd, Blackrock, Cork, pleaded guilty to breaching a protection order by putting his mother in fear at the family home on September 24.

Inspector Ronan Kennelly said the defendant’s mother told gardaí her son Alex had broken a table across her back. It was also stated that he caught another person present in the house by the throat.