Woman jailed for verbally abusing Echo seller while drunk in Cork City

The woman has been jailed for three months for that and other offences

The incident happened outside the GPO in Cork City. File picture: Larry Cummins

An Echo newspaper seller who was operating from his pitch outside the GPO in Cork was verbally abused by an intoxicated young woman who would not leave him alone.

Now at Cork District Court, Ilarija Alexsandrove, aged 24, of no fixed address has been jailed for three months for that and other offences. Sergeant Pat Lyons said the incident occurred on August 1 at Oliver Plunkett St.