Jail for man who ‘mooned at people’ in Kilkenny City
A man who admitted to engaging in insulting, threatening or abusive behaviour and to being intoxicated in a public place was handed down a three-month prison sentence at Kilkenny District Court.
Waldemar Ciurko, Good Shepherd Centre, Church Lane, Kilkenny admitted the offences which took place at St Mary’s Lane, Kilkenny on August 4 and at the Good Shepherd Centre on September 1.
The court heard that on August 4, 2025 gardaí were on patrol on RoseInn Street on the date in question when they observed the ‘defendant mooning at people’.
Sergeant Morgan O’Connor told the court that the defendant ‘had his trousers down’ and was ‘shouting obscenities and was highly aggressive’. The sergeant added that pepper spray had to be used on the date in question.
The defendant also admitted to being intoxicated in a public place and to engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour at the Good Shepherd Centre on September 1, 2024. On that date gardaí received a report from staff at the centre that there was ‘a violent, agitated male’. When gardaí attended they observed the defendant with ‘a dinner plate, knife and fork’ which he was threatening to throw at gardaí.
The defendant has 11 previous convictions including convictions for offences under The Public Order Act and the Misuse of Drugs Act.
Solicitor Joe Farrell said that at the time of the offences his client was living in a tent and was ‘in and out of the Good Shepherd Centre’ at the time and had also spent time in custody.
Judge Patricia Owens said that she would take into account the pleas before the court, the facts that had been outlined and the defendant’s previous convictions.
The defendant is currently in custody on other matters.
Judge Owens remarked that on the day in question the defendant’s behaviour was ‘completely unacceptable’.
The judge convicted the defendant of engaging in threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour at St Mary’s Lane on August 4 and imposed a one-month sentence. The intoxication charge was taken into account.
The judge also said that the defendant’s behaviour at the Good Shepherd Centre on September 1 was ‘aggressive and violent’ and ‘totally unacceptable’ and she imposed a two-month sentence to run consecutively to the one-month sentence she had imposed.