Judge warns courtroom to cut out 'football fan' antics

A senior judge threatened to send members of the public to the cells, after he accused them of behaving like "football fans", when the verdict was returned in a rape trial.

Judge warns courtroom to cut out 'football fan' antics

A senior judge threatened to send members of the public to the cells, after he accused them of behaving like "football fans", when the verdict was returned in a rape trial.

Mr Justice Paul Carney made his comments this morning, at the sentencing of a Brazilian man who was found guitly of raping a work colleague at a staff party in a Co Clare Hotel.

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