Garda declines offender's offer to cut his grass for a year

Judge Roberts gave Mr Kiely a five-and-a-half month suspended sentence for spitting at gardaí

“He should be cutting the garden of Garda Walsh for free for the next year,” Judge Colm Rpberts said. Garda Walsh declined, as he has a small garden.

A garda has politely declined a suggestion that a young man who spat at him during one incident, and who had to be pepper-sprayed while verbally abusing him in a second, should mow his garden for free for a year.

Matthew Kiely, 19, pleaded guilty to a number of charges arising out of two separate incidents which also involved Garda Padraig Walsh of Kinsale Garda Station.