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Fri 07 Jul 2009Councillor bound to peace for insulting fellow FG activist
A NEWLY ELECTED Fine Gael councillor has been bound to the peace for 12 months for calling a fellow party member “a f****** scab”.
Thomas Bambrick, who was elected to Bagenalstown Town Council in Co Carlow in May, appeared at a recent sitting of the District Court charged with an offence under the Public Order Act. Bambrick admitted to publicly insulting Larry Byrne, also a local Fine Gael activist, on the street.
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