Man refused to wear mask at lockdown protest

The Polish man said he does not recognise Irish jurisdiction.

Crowds at the Cork City centre Anti-Lockdown protest event on Saturday afternoon. Picture: Larry Cummins

A Polish man living in Cork for 12 years said that he does not recognise the Irish jurisdiction and refused to wear a mask while present at a protest last Saturday afternoon, a court has heard.

After pleading guilty to a charge arising out of the events on Saturday in Cork City, and in respect of another incident in January, Mikolaj Plichcinski, 39, with an address at an apartment at Clifton Terrace, Summerhill North, Cork, was jailed for five months.