Ross Lahive gets three months for assaults at children's story event in Kerry library

45-year-old Ross Lahive, who was an Irish People Party candidate in the Ireland South constituency in the European elections, of Church Street, Shandon Street, Cork, had denied assaulting four people, including a library security guard, a woman, a male photographer for the event and another man.

Irish People Party candidate Ross Lahive has been handed down a three-month jail sentence at Tralee District Court on Friday afternoon for his part in disrupting a Drag story event for children at Tralee library in July 2023.

Refusing to consider a suspended sentence, Judge David Waters said Mr Lahive was “the prime mover” and had shown zero remorse for his part in the violent attack during which children had to be shielded and words like 'prostitutes' and 'grooming' were used. The only threat to the children were the three who arrived from Cork with the intention of disrupting the event, the judge said.