Father and son attacked two gardaí outside a Louth hotel during a family wedding

A father and son have appeared before Dundalk District Court for attacking two gardaí who responded to a public order incident outside a north Louth hotel, where the defendants had been attending a family wedding.

Daniel Trainor (46) and Rory Trainor (20) both of the same address at Cathedral View, Armagh City were charged with separate counts of assault causing harm, obstruction and using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour at the Greenore Road, Carlingford on August 29th 2023.

Rory Trainor was also charged with failing to provide his name and address to gardaí and with assaulting another man.

The court heard last Wednesday how Gardaí had attended the Four Seasons Hotel where Rory Trainor was intoxicated and fighting with security staff and causing a disturbance by shouting and kicking bins at the back of the premises.

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Two guards approached him and he refused to give his name and address, he was restrained and placed in the back of the patrol car but kicked out at one garda hitting him three times in the face.

Daniel Trainor became abusive and continued to be aggressive while handcuffed and threatened to kick and bite the officers.

While restrained on the ground he bit one of them on the right forearm.

Neither defendant had any previous convictions.

Their barrister said there was no getting away from the seriousness of the offences and they had been consuming alcohol throughout the day, which he claimed skewed the then 18 year old's behaviour and his father came on the scene in an attempt to calm the situation and his intervention added fuel to the fire as he felt his son could have been brought home and put to bed.

After hearing the pair each had €3,000 in court for their respective victims, Judge Nicola Jane Andrews fined them each a total of €1,000 and said: “It's utterly disgusting and disgraceful - animals bite, not human beings”.