Woman avoids jail over threats to bomb President

A woman who sent obscene phone messages, including one to Áras an Uachtaráin threatening to bomb the President if he visited England, has received a suspended five-year sentence.

Anne Fennell, aged 57, referred to President Michael D Higgins as a “ladyboy” on one occasion and on another told the receptionist that “the President and Sabrina Higgins would go home in plastic bags if they set foot on English soil”.

She made repeated threats to bomb the President over a number of phonecalls in April 2014 and again in October the same year.