A judge has imposed a 1km exclusion zone around all Irish prisons on a woman arrested for dealing cannabis at Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison.<\/p>\n
Ann O’Rourke, 46, appeared before Judge John Hughes at Dublin District Court.<\/p>\n
The court heard Ms O’Rourke, of Dunard Avenue, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7, made no reply when charged with possessing cannabis herb for sale or supply at the prison yesterday.<\/p>\n
She has yet to enter a plea, and the value of the alleged drug seizure was not stated.<\/p>\n
Garda Rachel Smith initially objected to bail.<\/p>\n
Ms O’Rourke was unrepresented due to the ongoing industrial dispute, which has seen solicitors withdraw their services from District Court legal aid cases.<\/p>\n
The protest is in response to plans by Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan to reform the system and introduce a \u20ac520 flat fee for District Court cases.<\/p>\n
However, Garda Smith agreed with Judge Hughes that she would consent to bail provided strict conditions were imposed.<\/p>\n
The judge ordered that the 1km restriction would apply unless an application is made and sanctioned by the court to allow her to visit someone in prison custody.<\/p>\n
Under further terms, she must sign on once a week at her local garda station and provide a contact phone number so garda\u00ed can maintain contact with her.<\/p>\n
Ms O’Rourke, when asked if she consented to the terms, replied: “I do.”<\/p>\n
The unemployed woman explained to the court that she had experienced some recent difficulties attending court due to a sick relative.<\/p>\n
The accused was remanded on bail to appear again on 4 September next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has imposed a 1km exclusion zone around all Irish prisons on a woman arrested for dealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-544687","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\/544687","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=544687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}