Tralee District Court<\/a> heard that on 21st December last year, garda\u00ed responded to a report that a man on the Port Road in Killarney was carrying a firearm, pointing it at motorists as they drove by.<\/p>\nGarda\u00ed saw him at Ardshanavooley, pointing the firearm, which turned out to be a spring-loaded pellet gun, and arrested him.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a realistic imitation firearm, in relation to that incident.<\/p>\n
Mr Fitzpatrick\u2019s solicitor, P\u00e1draig O\u2019Connell, said the pellet gun was bought at a local souvenir shop, and could just as easily have been bought by an American tourist.<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Connell said it was because of Mr Fitzpatrick\u2019s enthusiasm for life that he was waving it around, but he did not threaten anyone nor caused any damage with it.<\/p>\n
Mr Fitzpatrick was convicted and fined \u20ac400 for possession of the pellet gun.<\/p>\n
On a separate occasion, on 31st January this year, garda\u00ed received reports of a man roaring and shouting on High Street, Killarney.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant David Howard, who was on beat patrol at the time, saw him trying to gain access to a premises.<\/p>\n
When Sgt Howard approached him, Mr Fitzpatrick asked, \u201cWhat the f*** are you looking at?\u201d<\/p>\n
When Sgt Howard, who was in plain clothes at the time, identified him as a member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, Mr Fitzpatrick raised his fists as if to fight him, and flicked a lit cigarette at him.<\/p>\n
Mr Fitzpatrick\u2019s solicitor, P\u00e1draig O\u2019Connell, said Sgt Howard is a robust member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and he was quite sure he would not have been intimidated by Mr Fitzpatrick, who Mr O\u2019Connell described as \u201cmore mouth than ability\u201d.<\/p>\n
Judge David Waters<\/a> sentenced him to two months in prison on a charge of assaulting or obstructing a peace officer, arising from this incident, to which he pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was pointing a pellet gun at motorists in broad daylight in Killarney before Christmas has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,208805,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-485553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-realistic-gun","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485553","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=485553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}