Cork man fined for headbutting work colleague who mocked him for keeping pet cats

Robert McGrath's solicitor said his client "should have complained he was being humiliated by a fellow employee".

The defendant, Robert McGrath, pleaded guilty but alleged that he was provoked.

A man who keeps cats at home was mocked with lewd comments about this in his workplace canteen and at the height of an incident with a work colleague he lashed out by headbutting the other man.

45-year-old Robert McGrath, of Monatoureen, Knockraha, County Cork, pleaded guilty today to a charge of assault causing harm to Duncan Ogundu at the staff canteen at Meenane pallet centre, Watergrasshill, County Cork.