A Garda in plainclothes arrested a ticket tout on the day of the Meath-Cork football final last year, the Dublin Circuit Court heard.
Garda Declan Birchill told Judge Michael White he saw Paul McDonald of Mercer House, Dublin, offer another man a ticket for sale outside a public house near Croke Park on the day. Garda Birchill said he was on plainclothes duty and saw McDonald in the middle of a crowd handing over the ticket in exchange for cash.
He identified himself and asked McDonald if he held a casual trading licence. When McDonald said he did not, he arrested him.
McDonald, who appealed against a District Court conviction under the street-trading by-laws, denied selling the ticket.
Judge White said there was clear evidence of the transaction and affirmed the conviction and £75 fine imposed by the District Court.
