'He was just cross was he?' asks judge as he sentences man for row on Cork to Dublin train

The judge said: 'We all face stress in life but that doesn’t give us the right to take it out on anyone else.'

Mr Buckley said that he had been running late for the train and jumped into the first-class section in his hurry. File picture: Dan Linehan

A man who had to be removed from a Cork to Dublin train by gardaí following a dispute with Iarnród Éireann staff was handed a suspended prison sentence in the district court on Wednesday.

Ross Buckley, aged 26, of Ballynacarrig, Kilcormac, Co. Offaly, appeared at Mallow District Court where he was charged with threatening and abusive behaviour and failing to comply with garda directions.