Ex-council employee jailed for six months for releasing rats into office over grievance

Defence solicitor Diarmuid O’Shea indicated that O’Neill was pleading guilty to the charge and Sgtproceeded to outline how O’Neill had gone about trapping and releasing the two rats into the council office where they caused some €3,000 worth of damage over four days.

Cork County Council had to hire in pest control and on February 12th. Rentokill trapped and killed the two rats but council staff were suspicious as to how the animals gained entry to the office and notified gardaí and Det GardaDet Garda Brosnan began obtained CCTV footage which showed O’Neill reversing his van up to the office on the morning of February 9th, removing an item from it, which he covered with his jacket, and later emerging with the item again covered up.

Mr O’Shea said that his client deeply regretted his action, which was “a daft thing to do” and “extremely stupid behaviour” and was completely out of character for him but marked the culmination of a series of grievances he had with a particular member of the council management. He said O’Neill had to plan the entire episode, going out and trapping the rats, then caging them and bringing them to the council office and releasing them, and he had numerous opportunities to reflect on what he was doing and realise it was “not a good idea” but he had chosen not to do so.

AkaPaulHoward Ahem !!!!!

6 months prison for this. Have I? Actually I have, I've heard it all now. We're so backwards 🤦

DailRat 😆

Serving Garda broke into his victim's home. Assaulted her two children. Assaulted her breaking to fingers, extensive bruising to her neck and face. Woman is living in fear believes he was treated differently because he was a Garda. And then you read this 🖕

In the land of suspended sentences for rapes and serious assaults, this 'uniquely wicked' crime gets you six months? I suppose he probably needed a longer criminal record to qualify for a slap on the wrists.

Oh my. 😩

Six months jail for releasing rats but teenager gets a five-year suspended sentence for raping his niece over a three-year period starting when she was just eight years old. Come on people, and the argument that jail will do the rapist no good flies in the face of this too.

Dirty Rat!

I'm curious how they calculated 3k damage for clean up, keyboards and pest control. Must be expensive clean up.

Some rat!

Horrible thing to do but 6 months for someone with a clean record? Maybe the judge was hungry.

You know, I would take this over shooting the place up like we do in the United States of America.

And yet a guard who choked his wife in front of their children and broke her fingers got 3 months...

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