{"id":319421,"date":"2026-02-27T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319421\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:31:11","slug":"you-will-end-up-dead-judge-warns-man-who-was-intoxicated-on-limerick-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319421\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You will end up dead&#8217;: Judge warns man who was intoxicated on Limerick street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWHAT in God\u2019s name was going on?\u201d, Judge Patricia Harney asked a man brought before Limerick District City Court, following the issuing of a bench warrant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keith McCarthy, 37, with a home address at Mount Richmond Close, Rhebogue, was charged with a public order offence at William Street, Limerick city, on December 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuting Sergeant Denis Waters said that garda\u00ed were called to the scene following reports of a heavily intoxicated man at 10.40pm that evening.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Waters detailed that Mr McCarthy attempted to run from garda\u00ed, but fell over while doing so.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2023700\/woman-charged-with-careless-driving-causing-the-death-of-limerick-motorcyclist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Woman charged with careless driving causing the death of Limerick motorcyclist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judge Harney asked the man \u201cwhy?\u201d, to which Mr McCarthy &#8211; who chose to forego legal representation &#8211; replied \u201cI relapsed at Christmas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The man said that he had no recollection of what happened at William Street, and that he had been sober for some time before the relapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a slip and I\u2019m so embarrassed,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McCarthy further detailed that he has since completed a recovery programme at Coolmine treatment centre.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Harney told the man that \u201cthe level of intoxication was thus that you were a danger to yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t deal with this matter, you will end up dead\u201d, the judge continued.<\/p>\n<p>The judge proceeded to convict Mr McCarthy, and fined him \u20ac100, giving him three months to pay the penalty.<\/p>\n<p>-Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWHAT in God\u2019s name was going on?\u201d, Judge Patricia Harney asked a man brought before Limerick District City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,1396,44,7250,43,88778],"class_list":["post-319421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city","tag-limerick-district-court","tag-news","tag-william-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319421","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=319421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}