A "complete and utter waster"

Limerickman Kieran Cummins (22) received a 9-month sentence at Castlebar District Court last week.  Cummins, a business studies student at the Castlebar campus of GMIT, was before the court on a series of charges.

On 4th February last he was arrested at 6:20 early Thursday morning, as he walked up a residential road in Castlebar carrying an iron bar in each hand. When confronted he told the Guard to “fuck off and mind your own business”. Cummins later explained he was frustrated after being attacked by a student at a house party earlier that night.

On 24th March, Cummins met Gardaí again when they discovered him in a stolen car stuck on a residential green at 12:45 in the morning.  Cummins told the court that he had been at another house party and had passed the unlocked car on his way home.  He said he had no recollection of taking the car.  He refused to provide the Guards with a blood or urine sample at the station.

Cummins was already disqualified from driving for three years and had 10 previous convictions.  Judge Mary Devins called Cummins and ‘complete and utter waster”, adding that she had “zilch sympathy for him”. Cummins received fines totalling €2,500 and a six year driving disqualification in addition to the 9 month sentence.  Cummins was allowed serve his sentence in Limerick prison.

Cummins recently pleaded guilty in Limerick District Court to violent disorder, along with 2 others.  Cummins and his co-accused were guilty of using or threatening to use unlawful violence causing another person to fear for their life at Ballinvoher, Father Russell Road on the 28th May 2007.  Kieran Cummins is due for sentencing for that offence in July.