Fingal man has sentence adjourned over bird killings

A Fingal man who broke into an aviary and killed 12 "unusual and exotic display birds" by pulling their heads off has had his sentence adjourned to allow him turn over a new leaf "whether he likes it or not."

Glen Conroy (aged 20) had drunk 12 cans of beer and a litre of vodka when he and an accomplice broke into Newbridge House in Donabate, which contains an aviary for exotic and rare birds.