{"id":455825,"date":"2026-05-19T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455825\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:37:14","slug":"buncrana-man-in-court-for-failing-to-leave-ex-wifes-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455825\/","title":{"rendered":"Buncrana man in court for failing to leave ex-wife\u2019s property"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Buncrana man who caused a disturbance and refused to leave his ex-wife\u2019s property has avoided a criminal conviction after giving a sworn undertaking not to repeat the behaviour.<\/p>\n

James Bradley, of Shandrum, Buncrana, appeared before Buncrana District Court, where he pleaded guilty to an offence under Section 13 of the Public Order Act.<\/p>\n

The charge related to failing, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, to comply with a direction given by a member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na.<\/p>\n

Evidence of arrest, charge and caution relating to the 63-year-old defendant was handed into court during the hearing.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Conor Mulkerns prosecuted the case and outlined the facts before the court.<\/p>\n

The court heard that the incident occurred at approximately 7.07am on May 1st, 2026, at Shandrum, Drumfries.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed received a complaint that Mr Bradley was refusing to leave land belonging to his ex-wife, Rose Bradley.<\/p>\n

When garda\u00ed arrived at the scene, they spoke with Ms Bradley, who informed them that she did not want Mr Bradley on the property and alleged that he was obstructing her from carrying out work there.<\/p>\n

The court heard that garda\u00ed then approached Mr Bradley, who remained on the land at the time, and explained the situation to him.<\/p>\n

He was initially requested to leave the property, but refused to do so. Garda\u00ed then formally directed him to leave under Section 13 of the Public Order Act.<\/p>\n

Despite the formal direction, the defendant continued to refuse to leave and was subsequently arrested and charged. The court was told that Mr Bradley has no previous convictions.<\/p>\n

Defence solicitor Donough Cleary said his client wished to plead guilty at the earliest available opportunity and wanted to \u201cdispose of the matter\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Mr Cleary said the defendant fully accepted that he had failed to comply with the Garda direction.<\/p>\n

The solicitor added that there was a \u201cbackground\u201d to the case, noting that the incident occurred on property belonging to Mr Bradley\u2019s former wife.<\/p>\n

Mr Cleary said the couple had been separated for approximately 17 years \u201cwithout issue\u201d and described the incident as \u201cvery much a once-off\u201d.<\/p>\n

The court also heard that Mr Bradley apologised to garda\u00ed for his actions.<\/p>\n

Mr Cleary said his client suffers from health difficulties and is currently in receipt of disability payments.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Sgt Mulkerns suggested that the defendant provide an undertaking to the court that he would not engage in similar behaviour again.<\/p>\n

Mr Bradley was then sworn in and gave a formal undertaking under oath that he would not repeat the conduct which brought him before the court.<\/p>\n

Judge Emile Daly said she was prepared to apply the Probation Act in the circumstances, meaning no conviction would be recorded against the defendant.<\/p>\n

However, the judge warned Mr Bradley against any future misconduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not to be doing anything like that again; getting yourself into trouble,\u201d Judge Daly told him before finalising the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Buncrana man who caused a disturbance and refused to leave his ex-wife\u2019s property has avoided a criminal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-455825","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\/455825","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=455825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}