A Co Monaghan mother received a jail sentence of one month at the District Court in Carrickmacross when convicted of being drunk in charge of a child.
Mary McNee, of Clontrain, Carrickmacross, appeared on remand before Judge Flann Brennan.
The case was adjourned from a previous sitting to enable the judge to consider the question of a penalty.
The court had heard that when gardai called to a bar in Carrickmacross they discovered the woman, who was accompanied by her seven year old son, in an intoxicated state.
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She denied in court that she had any drink taken and said she called to the pub to collect her partner.
Judge Brennan fixed terms for an appeal.