{"id":101948,"date":"2025-10-03T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/101948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:37:10","slug":"former-ff-councillor-has-waitress-harrassment-case-adjourned-to-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/101948\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FF councillor has waitress harrassment case adjourned to November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A former Fianna F\u00e1il councillor who admitted harassment of a woman in Cork city three years ago had sentencing adjourned again until November 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Mary Dorgan adjourned the case for finalisation at Cork District Court on that date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">49-year-old Joseph O\u2019Donovan, formerly known as Gary O\u2019Flynn, of Melvindale House, Coolowen, Blarney, County Cork, previously indicated through his solicitor Frank Buttimer that he was pleading guilty to the harassment. A victim impact statement was presented to the court at an earlier sitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The charge which he admitted is contrary to the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997, for the offence of harassment on three dates between July 30 and August 6 2022 at a location in Cork city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Details of the background to the case in relation to where the incident occurred are not published in order to prevent identification of the injured party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As Gary O\u2019Flynn, the defendant was a councillor on Cork City Council from 2003 to 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Fianna F\u00e1il councillor who admitted harassment of a woman in Cork city three years ago had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2013,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-101948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-court","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}