Four-month suspended sentence for attack on migrant centre in Killarney

Eamon Murphy had two previous convictions for public order offences and had had committed a third offence while on bail for the attack on the Harmony Inn, Killarney District Court heard on Tuesday

The accused, 25-year-old Eamon Murphy at Tralee Court Court.  

A man has been given a conviction and handed down a four month sentence for an attack on a migrant centre in Killarney in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The prison sentence has been suspended.

Eamon Murphy, aged 25, of Curragh, Aghadoe, Killarney, Co Kerry, along with a co-accused, had previously pleaded guilty to criminal damage as well as trespass at the Harmony Inn, a direct provision centre on the Muckross Road Killarney, on New Year’s Day.