Judge activates sentence after 'jail or job' warning

A settled Traveller who previously had been warned by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court judge “it’s jail or a job” has had a suspended sentence reactivated after he failed to get work in the last four years.

Martin McDonagh (aged 36) had received an 18-month sentence from Judge Donagh McDonagh in June 2007 after he pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Dr Stephen Lynch at Tallaght Hospital on November 8, 2004.