Drunken mother assaulted her son, 4, on bus

A passenger on a bus rang the gardaí when she witnessed a drunken mother assault her four-year-old son.

Gardaí arrested the 26-year-old mother, who cannot be identified to protect the child’s identity, when the bus arrived at the station in Galway city.

The mother pleaded guilty, before Galway District Court, to assaulting her son at an unknown location on the Tuam Road, Galway, on January 18, 2016, and received a five-month suspended sentence.