Community service for Cork man who posted IDs online of children convicted of murder

The court heard that the defendant had not "understood the seriousness of what he had done”.

Diarmuid Kelleher, defence solicitor, said the accused did not generate the posting on his Facebook page but has re-posted one generated by someone else. File picture: Pexels

Posting the identities of the two boys convicted of murdering a 14-year-old girl on Facebook resulted in a Cork man being ordered to do 150 hours of community service instead of four months in jail.

Judge Olann Kelleher said at Cork District Court that he did not propose to recite the seriousness of the offence as everybody knew what a serious matter it was to identify the teenagers in contravention of a court order.