FORMER FG TD FINED €750 FOR BALLYBAY PUB ASSAULT

A former Fine Gael TD was fined €750, and allowed six months to pay, at a special sitting of the District Court in Monaghan on Tuesday last when he was convicted for an assault at his family-owned licensed premises in Ballybay last year.

Sean Conlan, 42, of Main Street, Ballybay, was charged with unlawfully assaulting and causing harm to Enda Duffy of Annahia, Ballybay, at the premises on August 23. He also faced a charge for the alleged use of a broken pint glass during the incident in which it was alleged Mr Duffy sustained a minor injury to an arm.
Judge Conal Gibbons said he recalled the evidence at a previous hearing at which Mr Conlan was convicted, and he considered that, in all the circumstances, the assault was one at “the lower scale” of such offences and the conviction did not warrant a custodial sentence, a suspended prison term, or an order for community …