Judge requests psychiatrist’s report on Corkman who threw soup on painting

Thomas Shinnick also admitted to threatening behaviour, resisting arrest and refusing to leave a bus in a separate incident

Thomas Shinnick pleaded guilty earlier in the week to causing criminal damage to the painting in the Crawford Art Gallery.

A psychiatrist’s report is to be prepared in advance of sentencing of a climate change protestor who threw soup on a painting in the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork.

Judge Marian O’Leary was told of a prior history of mental health difficulties experienced by Thomas Shinnick.