'Love Ulster' rioter gets nine months

A man whose photograph appeared on the front page of a national newspaper the day after the 'Love Ulster' parade "essentially engaged in a tug of war with gardaí" has been sentenced to nine months in prison.

Jonathan Hawthorne (aged 36) of Mount Tallant Avenue, Terenure, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to violent disorder on February 25, 2006. He had four previous convictions for public order and had not come to Garda attention since.