Teenager gets chance to avoid sentence; Judge calls Jobstown protest an 'attack on the State'

A 16-year-old boy has been given a chance to avoid a six-month sentence after he admitted getting caught up in violence at the Jobstown protest last year.

Teenager gets chance to avoid sentence; Judge calls Jobstown protest an 'attack on the State'

A 16-year-old boy has been given a chance to avoid a six-month sentence after he admitted getting caught up in violence at the Jobstown protest last year.

Tánaiste Joan Burton and her entourage were allegedly trapped in a car following a graduation just after midday on November 15 at An Cosan education facility in Jobstown, in Tallaght.

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