Woman jailed for harassing former Cork Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O'Brien

Phone records show that Sonya Egan contacted Jonathan O’Brien in the form of calls and messages over 5,500 times in a six-month period

Jonathan O'Brien did not want his victim impact statement read in court but asked for it to be given directly to the judge. File photo: Gareth Chaney / Collins Photos

Many people need an online presence and must be allowed to do so without harassment and lies being told against them via the internet, the sentencing judge declared in a case where a Cork woman was jailed for two years.

Sonya Egan carried out a campaign of harassment against former Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’Brien and a woman working in the community in Cork for a period of approximately one year and had a devasting effect on the lives of both victims.