A 41-year-old man used a scaffold bar to cause extensive damage to his neighbours\u2019 \u20ac59,000 Hyundai car when he just \u201clost it\u201d in a row about their two rottweiler dogs.<\/p>\n
Eoin Mulcahy was sentenced by Judge Sinead Behan at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to one year suspended for causing the criminal damage.<\/p>\n
The accused man pleaded guilty to damaging the car on October 22, 2023, and producing the scaffold bar in the course of a dispute.<\/p>\n
The owners of the car heard banging outside their home and CCTV showed Eoin Mulcahy arriving outside their home with the metal bar. He smashed the bonnet, wing mirrors and a number of windows in the car.<\/p>\n
Eoin Mulcahy, who was living at Chestnut Mews, Cluain Ard, Cobh, County Cork, at the time of the criminal damage was having a dispute with the owners of the car in relation to their two rottweiler dogs, where it was his view that they were not always under control.<\/p>\n
Because the electric car was seriously damaged by rain following the attack, it was so seriously water-damaged that it had to be written off, Judge Behan was told.<\/p>\n
Defence barrister, Mahon Corkery, said: \u201cHe was forthcoming, honest and expressed remorse from the outset. He wrote a letter of apology and made admissions to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
\n Since this, the defendant and his family have moved out of the area, and in fact out of the county.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Judge Behan said the defendant handled a dispute in an extremely poor manner, arming himself with a dangerous weapon to carry out this damage. The judge noted that although he has moved away, his former neighbours remain in fear that he might possibly return.<\/p>\n
In mitigation, the judge noted that he had gone through addiction treatment and gathered \u20ac5,000 as a gesture of his remorse as well as leaving the area. In all the circumstance, the judge said a one-year suspended sentence was appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 41-year-old man used a scaffold bar to cause extensive damage to his neighbours\u2019 \u20ac59,000 Hyundai car when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-212431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115653339054708778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212431","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=212431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}