A Dublin woman who threw a glass at a garda yesterday agreed to clean up her street as an alternative to a criminal conviction.
Teresa Cullen (30), Crinion Strand, Dublin, agreed to clean her street for two hours next Wednesday, after admitting a breach of the peace and assault.
Judge William Early, who adopted a similar approach last year to a man who kicked a bottle on O'Connell Street, said he did "not have the power to order this. But I am offering it as an alternative to a conviction."
Dublin District Court heard Cullen threw a bottle at a garda who was helping to arrest her husband after a disturbance in a Talbot Street shop on April 3rd last year.
She had come out of a pub with glass. Garda Aidan Stratford said she was screaming abuse and threw the glass at him but missed. Her solicitor, Mr Declan Fahey, there was a lot of drink involved on the night.
Cullen said she could clean up the street while her five children were at school.
Cullen's husband, Gerard Kelly (32), was offered 200 hours community service as an alternative to 12 months imprisonment. His case was heard in another court yesterday by Judge Gerard Haughton, who was told Kelly "staggered" into a shop, a row developed and when he refused to leave he was arrested.
As he was being put into a patrol van he repeatedly kicked one garda and spat in another's face.
Judge Gerard Haughton said if he did not attend the probation service to see if he was suitable for community service, he would get 12 months on May 25th.