{"id":201607,"date":"2025-12-20T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201607\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:24:08","slug":"woman-who-dragged-victim-by-hair-outside-wicklow-pub-is-fined-e600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201607\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who dragged victim by hair outside Wicklow pub is fined \u20ac600"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michaela<\/p>\n

Michaela Shortall, of Hawthorn Drive, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow.<\/p>\n

A woman who became involved in a verbal altercation in a Rathdrum pub before assaulting another woman has been fined.<\/p>\n

Michaela Shortall, of Hawthorn Drive, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, appeared before Bray District Court charged with a Section 3 assault.<\/p>\n

Solicitor for the accused, Brendan Maloney, told the court that the State did not have a medical report and, in the absence of such a report, his client was willing to plead guilty to a Section 2 assault. The State agreed.<\/p>\n

The court heard that Ms Shortall was in a pub in Rathdrum when she became involved in a verbal altercation with another woman. The defendant pulled the injured party by the hair and dargged her to the ground.<\/p>\n

In his evidence, Sergeant Mick Canavan told the court that the victim suffers from a chronic illness and has experienced constant pain to the scalp since the incident.<\/p>\n

Ms Shortall has one previous conviction for a public order offence at Carlow District Court.<\/p>\n

When questioned as to why she committed the assault, the defendant alleged that the injured party had called her brother a \u201cknacker\u201d.<\/p>\n

The incident was described in court by Mr Maloney as \u201cnot his client\u2019s finest moment\u201d.<\/p>\n

In his plea in mitigation, he told the court that Ms Shortall is the mother of three young children and does not earn a significant income.<\/p>\n

Judge \u00c1ine Shannon described the situation as \u201cdisgraceful\u201d before fining Ms Shortall \u20ac600, with six months to pay.<\/p>\n

Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michaela Shortall, of Hawthorn Drive, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow. A woman who became involved in a verbal altercation in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13228,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-201607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-darragh-mccann","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201607","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=201607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}