Man who banged on hotel doors with fire extinguisher blames drinking on empty stomach

'Mortified' reveller given fine rather than conviction

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A man who drank on an empty stomach ended up being arrested after he began banging on the doors of hotel rooms with a fire extinguisher.

Robert Cuddihy of Tinnaculla, Askeaton in Co Limerick, pleaded guilty to a public order offence at Bantry District Court, which heard he was “mortified” at what had occurred at the Eccles Hotel in Glengarriff last August.