Jumping the queue in a Galway barbershop and taking up a scissors to cut his own hair earned a DIY barber two months in custody when he appeared before the District Court.
Frank McDonagh, 60 Inishannagh Park, Galway, Judge Fiona Lydon was told, was intoxicated and became impatient while waiting for his haircut in a city barber’s. He jumped the queue and began cutting his own hair with a scissors he grabbed. The Judge said she was concerned that he took up the scissors in a public place which could have been dangerous.
She made this comment in the light of McDonagh facing another charge of being in possession of a box-cutter type knife. There was still no explanation as to why he had this.
The Court heard that the defendant had to be pepper-sprayed by Gardaí when he was being arrested on a public order charge on August 6 last.
McDonagh is currently serving a six-month sentence on a theft conviction. Judge Lydon imposed a two-month consecutive sentence on the DIY haircut charge, two months on the pepper-spray incident and six months for possession of the box-cutter.
