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":171609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,54,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-171608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}