GALWAY JUDGE CRITICISES PARENTS OF MOYCULLEN JUVENILES

Date Published: 01-Apr-2008

A District Court Judge has said the parents of three teenagers who smashed up an unoccupied house during a drinking session in Moycullen have a lot of questions to answer.

Judge Mary Fahy was commenting on a case involving three juveniles and two adults at Galway District Court yesterday.

The court heard that two 16 year-old girls and a youth, all from Moycullen, arranged to meet 19 year-old Rory Kenny of 7 Ballinfoyle Cottages, Headford Road, Galway, and 20 year-old David Walsh of 5 Lakeshore, Renmore, for a drinking session at a hay shed behind a house near Moycullen, at 8pm on June 13 last year.

One of them gained entry through a window in the house and let the others in.

They found more drink in the kitchen and smashed up the house, breaking beds, a television, a sideboard, wardrobes, mirrors and every piece of crockery they could find.

The three juveniles are being dealt with under the Juvenile Liaison Scheme.

Both accused paid 2,000 euro in compensation in court yesterday.

But Judge Fahy said she expects 10,000 euro in compensation to be paid by both accused and by the juveniles’ parents by June 30 next.

She adjourned the matter to that date for the balance of 6,000 euro to be paid.