Woman refusing to wear mask in shopping centre shouted 'Covid is not real', Cork court told

Brona Cahill from Mallow then shouted "I hope the whole country gets it."

She had been asked to leave the shopping centre because of her refusal to wear a mask. File photo: Pexels

A Mallow woman who refused to wear a mask in a shopping centre last Friday afternoon shouted: “Covid is not real. I hope the whole country gets it. F*** Covid.” 

Brona Cahill, aged 38, of Tirnova, Ballyellis, Mallow, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to being drunk and a danger and engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour on March 5 at North Main Street shopping centre.