Ex-Garda jailed for contempt of court

A landlord and ex-Garda has been committed to Mountjoy prison for six weeks for what the President of the High Court described as the "flagrant breach" of undertakings he had previously given to the court in relation to one of his properties, which Dublin City Council has deemed a fire risk.

Today the President of the High Court Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns committed Kevin Galvin to prison, where he will most likely spend Christmas on foot of an application by Dublin City Council, after being informed that an undertaking given by Mr Galvin last Friday to vacate a building at 73 Cabra Park, Dublin of all its residents had not been complied with.