Three-year sentence for 'Love Ulster' rioter

A man from Blarney who smashed the window of a Garda patrol van outside the GPO during the ‘Love Ulster’ Parade riots was given a three-year sentence by Judge Des Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Shane Hickey (aged 27) of The View, Gleann na Rí, Tower, Blarney, County Cork pleaded guilty to violent disorder in O’Connell Street, Dublin on February 25 2006.