Cork judge 'pushing community service' in light of prison overcrowding

The judge told the 31-year-old Cork man he could do 120 hours of community service.

A sentencing judge said he was pushing community service in light of the widely reported overcrowding of Irish prisons.

Judge Colm Roberts made that known in a case where a man who was convicted for threatening behaviour under the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act faced the prospect of a jail term.