Man, 57, recalls rugby-playing days but fails to tackle jail term for trespassing in Cork

57-year-old English man complimented Judge Olann Kelleher as a very fair man butchanged his tune when he got a three-month jail term saying: “You were better on the pitch than you are off it.” 

The judge must have recognised immediately that the rugby-playing quip was an exchange that would end up on the ‘highlights reel’.

A 57-year-old English man on trial for trespassing called Judge Olann Kelleher a very fair man and recalled his rugby-playing days during the case but he changed his tune when he got a three-month jail term saying: “You were better on the pitch than you are off it.” 

There was laughter in Cork District Court when Timothy Hadfield – who now opts to call himself “No Name” – made the quip at the end of the case where he appeared by video link from Cork Prison. The laughter came not least from the judge himself who must have recognised immediately that this was an exchange that would end up on the ‘highlights reel’.