Can’t handle alcohol well

A New Year’s Eve reveller who “doesn’t handle alcohol well” has been convicted and fined ¤ 300.

Tubbercurry District Court heard that Gardaí saw 28- year- old Michael Barrett in an altercation with people on JFK Parade in Sligo at 2.30am January 1st this year.

“He was very intoxicated. The Gardaí were unable to reason with him. He was asked to leave the area and was very aggressive towards them,” Inspector Paul Kilcoyne said.

He was also charged with being drunk and disorderly at Wolf Tone Street, Ballymote on June 27th last year.

The inspector said on that occasion Barrett had to be arrested for his own safety he was so “drunk and incoherent.”

His solicitor Mr Gerard McGovern told Judge Kevin Kilrane that “unfortunately he’s a man that doesn’t handle alcohol well.”

He said Barrett had been out in Sligo with friends on New Year’s Eve and regretted the incident in which he had consumed “far too much alcohol.”

“He should know when he goes out that alcohol has led him into altercations with the Gardaí,” said Mr McGovern, adding that “some people don’t realise what alcohol can do to them.”

The court heard the defendant is unemployed and single.

Judge Kilrane said a “healthy, young man like him should be out working.”

He convicted and fined Barrett ¤ 300.