Drunk man tried to barge into house, threatened to kill woman and son

He is a 'troublesome drunk rather than someone who gets drunk and is no trouble to anyone', says judge

'This is a man who frightened the daylights out of a woman and a child.'

A man has received a jail sentence after an incident in which he sought to enter a house in which a woman and her son were living and threatened to kill them unless he was allowed in.

Michael Foley, of Teadies Upper, Enniskeane, Co Cork, had already pleaded guilty to the public order offence and related burglary, which occurred in Clonakilty, Co Cork last summer when, while intoxicated, he believed he was being chased by others.