‘Trojan efforts’ praised in outraging public decency case

A man who followed customers including children in a Tralee supermarket while masturbating three years ago has “made Trojan efforts” Tralee Circuit Criminal Court has been told and is to be given the Probation Act.

Iosach Ó Riain, aged 27, of Mount Eagle Rise, Leopardstown Heights, Dublin 18, pleaded guilty in 2014 to two charges of “outraging public decency”, contrary to common law.

At Tesco, Manor West, Tralee, “a public place and within view of members of the public”, he had masturbated himself in public, a lewd and obscene act which outraged public decency, on June 26 and June 27, 2013, the charges said.