{"id":495081,"date":"2026-06-11T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495081\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:16:09","slug":"court-gives-woman-18-a-chance-over-letterkenny-hospital-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495081\/","title":{"rendered":"Court gives woman (18) a chance over Letterkenny hospital incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young woman charged with a public order offence at Letterkenny University Hospital has been given a chance to avoid a conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who is now 18, was charged with two offences that occurred when she was under 18.<\/p>\n<p>She appeared before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/courts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Letterkenny District Court<\/a> charged with offences that occurred in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Garda Sergeant Maurice Doyle outlined the case in court.<\/p>\n<p>Gardai responded to a call at 1.46am on October 8, 2025. The accused as found shouting and being abusive to security guards at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>When the defendant was approached by Gardai, she was highly intoxicated and attempted to flee. However, she was arrested and conveyed to Letterkenny Garda Station.<\/p>\n<p>On another occasion, she was found in an intoxicated state at Lower Main Street, Letterkenny. Sergeant Doyle said that she was stumbling and slurring her words. He said she was arrested for her own safety.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jason Laverty, the woman\u2019s solicitor, said his client was suffering due to a bereavement at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-sans font-semibold text-xl md:text-[30px] leading-9 text-primary w-full\">\n        You may also be interested in\n    <\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/boxing\/icon-katie-taylor-visits-donegal-man-who-boxed-in-croke-park-637464\" class=\"block w-2\/5 shrink-0\" aria-label=\"Icon Katie Taylor visits Donegal man who boxed in Croke Park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/icon-katie-taylor-visits-donegal-man-who-boxed-in-croke-park.png\" class=\"max-w-full w-full h-full object-contain relative z-10\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\"  alt=\"Icon Katie Taylor visits Donegal man who boxed in Croke Park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/news\/spraoi-agus-sport-announce-summer-fun-programme-across-inishowen-637455\" class=\"block w-2\/5 shrink-0\" aria-label=\"Spraoi agus Sp\u00f3rt announce summer fun programme across Inishowen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/spraoi-agus-sp-oacute-rt-announce-summer-fun-programme-across-inishowen.jpeg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full h-full object-contain relative z-10\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\"  alt=\"Spraoi agus Sp\u00f3rt announce summer fun programme across Inishowen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said she has completed school and was \u201cin a bad patch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was her first experience of this level of inebriation,\u201d Mr Laverty said. \u201cThese two offences occurred within a week of each other. She has no previous convictions and has conveyed an apology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was put in the witness box and told Judge Emile that she hopes to start a course later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Daly said that the court didn\u2019t want to impose a conviction as it would add to her going forward.<\/p>\n<p>She gave the woman a chance to make a charitable donation of \u20ac50 to White Oaks. If the donation is paid, the matter will be struck out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I am doing that is that I really don\u2019t want to see you back in court,\u201d Judge Daly told the accused. \u201cI am giving you an opportunity not to get into trouble again. You are old enough not to be behaving like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young woman charged with a public order offence at Letterkenny University Hospital has been given a chance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-495081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495081","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=495081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}