{"id":44024,"date":"2025-09-26T05:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44024\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:32:14","slug":"man-fined-for-urinating-in-street-of-cork-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44024\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fined for urinating in street of Cork town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">An intoxicated man who was spotted urinating in the street in a Cork town has been convicted in the district court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Court presenter, Sergeant Majella O\u2019Sullivan, told Youghal District Court that a member of the public reported a highly intoxicated man on North Main Street, Youghal, on July 29, 2025 at 9.45pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda Lee Donnelly attended the scene but when he arrived the man was no longer on North Man Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A short time later, the suspect, identified as Stasys Serbickas, aged 37, with an address at the Cork Simon Community was spotted on Catherine Street, a short distance away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda Donnelly told the court that Mr Serbickas was highly intoxicated, was staggering and proceeded to urinate against a wall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was arrested for his own safety and the safety of others and taken to Youghal Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The court heard that Mr Serbickas, who did not appear at the hearing, had no previous convictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge John King convicted Mr Serbickas of being intoxicated in public and fined him \u20ac200, allowing two months to pay the fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-inline ACnam\" style=\"font-family: font-family: 'Montserrat', 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; color: rgb(150,150,150);line-height: 13px;margin: 0px;padding-right: 15px; margin-left: 4px;\">This article was funded by the Courts Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intoxicated man who was spotted urinating in the street in a Cork town has been convicted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-44024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44024","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=44024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}