{"id":416775,"date":"2026-04-02T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/416775\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:14:12","slug":"judge-puts-final-freeze-on-stand-off-between-ice-cream-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/416775\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge puts final freeze on stand-off between ice-cream vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Co Donegal judge has said a stand-off between two rival ice-cream salesman is \u201cgetting very messy\u201d and needs to be resolved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cases of Stephen Cole and Jim Chambers came before Judge Ciaran Liddy at Letterkenny District Court.<\/p>\n<p>Each face a number of charges arising out of a number of alleged incidents at Rathmullan Beach going back as far as 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Both men, Jim Chambers, 65, of The Glebe, Letterkenny, and Stephen Cole, a 43-year-old of Trentabuoy, Drumkeen face a charge of breach of the peace at Rathmullan Beach on July 19, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>They are also each charged with an assault on 25 July, 2021 at Rathmullan and also with a breach of the peace on the same date at the same location.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Liddy said he understood that all cases involving both parties were due to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told that another incident had occurred relating to a third party which also had to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers is represented by solicitor Mr Donough Cleary while Cole is represented by Mr Patsy Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>Previous court dates had been adjourned to see how the rival ice-cream vendors got on over summer seasons.<\/p>\n<p>But Judge Ciaran Liddy said the case is \u201cgetting to a point where it has to be brought to a completion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He agreed to once again adjourn matters for the summer months to see how the parties got on.<\/p>\n<p>He set a date for hearing on November 4th stating that all parties must attend and set \u2018peremptory against everybody\u2019 meaning there will be no more delays in the case being heard.<\/p>\n<p>Judge puts final freeze on stand-off between ice-cream vendors was last modified:  April 2nd, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Co Donegal judge has said a stand-off between two rival ice-cream salesman is \u201cgetting very messy\u201d and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,11603,6368,18,13,14,6,19,17,187244,11,12,15,16,5,187245,79286,187246,7,8],"class_list":["post-416775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-court","tag-donegal","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jim-chambers","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-rathmullan-beach","tag-stand-off","tag-stehen-cole","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116335533547868556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416775","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=416775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}