Sentences for St Patrick’s Institution rioters

Three inmates who participated in a 12-hour riot at St Patrick’s Institution in the grounds of Mountjoy Prison have been given two-year suspended sentences by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

They are: John Kinlan (aged 21) Johnstown Gardens, Ballygall Road, Finglas; Joseph McDonagh (aged 20), Oakville House, Mullingar, Co Westmeath; and Jonathan Lynch (aged 19), St Grellan’s Terrace, Ballinasloe, Galway; who all pleaded guilty to criminal damage of the security nets at the Institution on February 28-29, 2004.