Siblings who pelted aunt with 32 eggs ‘showed no remorse’

A JUDGE has said that a brother and sister who threw up to 32 eggs at their aunt during a fiveminute-long assault have shown ‘no remorse’ and ‘no apology’ for their actions.

At Gort District Court yesterday, Judge Mary Larkin convicted and fined Cathal Connors (26) and Michelle Connors (21), both of Fannaun, Peterswell, Co Galway concerning the egg assault on their aunt Mary Fahy outside their home on October 17, 2019.

Judge Larkin fined each €500 for the assault on Ms Fahy and an additional €500 each for the criminal damage of Ms Fahy’s Ford Kuga.

In evidence, Ms Fahy told the court previously said that her face got ‘banged’ and ‘bashed’ with the eggs thrown by her nephew and niece.

Ms Fahy said: “It was bang, bang, bang, bang. I thought they were stones and they continued for five minutes or thereabouts and banging eggs off my face.”

Ms Fahy told the court that her niece and nephew threw “a dozen and a score of eggs” at her.

After reading a victim impact statement and a probation report on the two accused, Judge Larkin said: “I had hoped that I could deal with these matters by not criminalising two young people.

“I am quite satisfied that there isn’t any other way. That is because there is no acknowledgement of what went on, there is no apology and no remorse.”

Judge Larkin added: “I seriously regret that I have to convict these young people.

“Their parents and everyone who is involved in this very sad story should sit back and think about the shortness of life.

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of the assault her niece and nephew “had seen me coming at a distance... I knew they were getting at me and that they had something in mind”.

Ms Fahy stated that she was driving her car past her brother Patrick Connors’ home after getting shopping in Gort when Mr Connors’ two children carried out their egg assault. Ms Fahy said she wasn’t able to continue driving because she was in shock. She said: “I got such a fright, my head just went. I am passing there 38 years and I never saw that before.”

After the assault, Ms Fahy said “my blood pressure was through the roof and I had to get three days off work”.

Her son James was the first on the scene and he told the court that his mother “was in shock, shivering and very upset”.

He said that there were eggs on her face, her clothing and the interior of the car and egg shells on the road.