A shop assistant intervened when a 28-year-old woman got aggressive with customers but ended up being punched in the face and dragged around the premises by her hair.<\/p>\n
Garda Anita O\u2019Rourke charged Emma Wallace of Cork Simon Community with assaulting the shop assistant.<\/p>\n
Now at Cork District Court the defendant has pleaded guilty to that assault. Judge Mary Dorgan imposed a five-month jail sentence on her.<\/p>\n
Frank Buttimer, solicitor, said of the accused: \u201cShe expresses her remorse and apologises for this. It happened in the course of addiction difficulties. She accepts she is going to be in custody for the near future.”<\/p>\n
Sergeant John Kelleher outlined details of the assault at Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn November 10, 2025, the accused entered EA Mart at 118 St. Patrick Street, Cork at approximately 9.40pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe started to act aggressively towards customers in the shop. The shop assistant Elia approached Emma Wallace asking her to leave the shop.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accused then used a closed fist and struck the injured party connecting with the right temple. She then grabbed the injured party by her hair and dragged her around the shop.<\/p>\n
\u201cA customer intervened and Emma Wallace left the shop. The assault is captured on CCTV. Garda O’Rourke viewed the CCTV and the accused was clearly identified on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe injured party did not receive any visible injuries but stated she was in pain for a number of days.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shop assistant intervened when a 28-year-old woman got aggressive with customers but ended up being punched in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79,54,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-243539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243539","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=243539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}