A 30-year old Ennis man has appeared in court charged with engaging in offensive conduct of a sexual nature at Cahercalla Hospital in Ennis earlier this year.<\/p>\n
At Ennis District Court, Shane McCarthy of Shanballa, Lahinch Rd, Ennis appeared in connection with on February 15th intentionally engaging in offensive conduct of a sexual nature at Cahercalla Hospital, Cahercalla Road, Ennis, contrary to Section 45(3) Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017.<\/p>\n
The court heard that Mr McCarthy made no reply after caution when charged before court.<\/p>\n
Solicitor for Mr McCarthy, Daragh Hassett said that his client is currently on very strict bail conditions concerning other charges that appear on the court list.<\/p>\n
Mr Hassett said that these require Mr McCarthy to reside in Galway.<\/p>\n
He said that Mr McCarthy is allowed to return to Ennis on Saturdays and he had canvassed that Mr McCarthy be allowed to return to Ennis on a full time basis but the State is opposed to that.<\/p>\n
Mr Hassett said that Judge Harris would recall the other matters before the court where Mr McCarthy is due to go into a treatment centre for addiction on June 2nd.<\/p>\n
Mr Hassett said that was seeking disclosure from Gardai in relation to the new matter.<\/p>\n
Mr McCarthy has previously pleaded guilty to sending four lewd images of himself to his then addiction counsellor on May 5th last year.<\/p>\n
Mr McCarthy has also pleaded guilty to masturbating in a public place at Silver Grove, Ballybeg, Ennis on August 31st last year and the possession of cocaine on the same date at Ennis Garda Station.<\/p>\n
Mr McCarthy is also before the court where he is charged with masturbating in a public place on December 18th last at Ballyalla Lake on the northern outskirts of Ennis.<\/p>\n
Mr Hassett told the court previously that Mr McCarthy \u201chas a has a very, very serious cocaine addiction which has led him to act out in the most unusual ways\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Hassett told Judge Harris that Mr McCarthy\u2019s cocaine intake resulted \u201cin a complete disinhibition in how he behaved around certain individuals\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Hassett said that a psychologist\u2019s report on Mr McCarthy is available to the court.<\/p>\n
Sgt John Burke previously told the court that two of the grossly offensive communications to the addiction counsellor concerned one second videos of Mr McCarthy\u2019s penis.<\/p>\n
Sgt Burke said that four grossly offensive images consisted of two videos and two still images of Mr McCarthy\u2019s penis.<\/p>\n
Judge Adrian Harris remanded Mr McCarthy on continuing bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year old Ennis man has appeared in court charged with engaging in offensive conduct of a sexual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-437792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437792","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=437792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}