A new low for the gga-part 56

I don’t think this is a new low; what it is, is a blatant example of the southern media bias against Tyrone. It seems the Gardai are also in on it. It’s common medical knowledge that you can’t piss for up to a week after breaking ribs.

Former Tyrone footballer Owen Mulligan was “very abusive” towards a doctor who was called to a garda station to take a sample when he was under arrest on suspicion of drink driving, Listowel District Court heard on Thursday.
The court heard that Mr Mulligan didn’t think a GP who arrived at Listowel Garda Station, was a doctor.
Mr Mulligan (34), of Church Street, Cookstown, Tyrone, is contesting a charge of refusing to provide a blood or urine sample when ordered to do so by a garda.
He was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving under the Road Traffic Acts on August 29th, 2014. At Listowel Garda station, he was asked by Garda Piaras Ferriter to give a sample of blood or urine to a designated doctor, Dr John Halkett.
Mr Mulligan’s solicitor John O’Dwyer asked his client why he failed in his attempt to give a breath sample on the night.
Mr Mulligan said he had broken three or four ribs in a recent game.
Medical evidence was handed in to court of how he had sustained fractured ribs the week before his arrest in Listowel.
Supt Dan Keane, prosecuting, put it to Mr Mulligan that he had never told the gardaí or Dr Halkett he was carrying an injury.
However Mr Mulligan said: “I distinctly remember saying it.”
Asked by Supt Keane if he accepted he had drink taken Mr Mulligan, who the court heard had been attending a wedding, said: “ I had a glass of wine with my meal.”
Judge James O’ Connor asked him why he did not provide a blood or urine sample, and Mr Mulligan said: “I didn’t think he was a doctor.”
Earlier Dr Halkett said he showed Mr Mulligan his headed notepaper to show he was a doctor. Mr Mulligan was inebriated, he felt, adding he wouldn’t like to have been driven by him.
Garda Ferriter said Mr Mulligan “was very abusive and aggressive towards the doctor on the night in question.”
Judge James O’Connor adjourned the matter for decision to November 5th.

Smark · September 4, 2015, 12:30am

What was he doing in Listowel is the question?

Chucks_Nwoko · September 4, 2015, 12:40am

Fitzmaurice asked him down to do a few drills with Gooch.

Fitzy · September 4, 2015, 1:15am

Maybe if you actually read the article you’d know.

Nembo_Kid · September 4, 2015, 3:07am

Mugsy was right. I wouldn’t trust the word of a stater, especially the further south you go.

Juhniallio · September 4, 2015, 4:58am

Drinking.

dodgy_keeper · September 4, 2015, 6:41am

The Kerry boys are still sour over those defeats to Kerry in Croke Park.

Justice For Mugsy.

Fitzy · September 4, 2015, 6:52am

That’s a good trick

Chucks_Nwoko · September 4, 2015, 6:55am

Mugsy’s been stitched up good and proper here. This “Dr.” Halkett sounds a right shady character.

Nembo_Kid · July 19, 2016, 9:45pm

A GAA star has been given a suspended sentence for stealing over €28,000 from a barrister to use for online shopping

Dinah Loughlin (30) stole the money over a five year period as she was working as a legal secretary for Marguerite Bolger, a senior counsel specialising in employment law.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that during the period Loughlin undertook transcription work for other barristers. However she then used Ms Bolger’s account to pay a stenography service to complete the work.

Other purchases included online shopping at Asos, River Island and Amazon. She also spent hundreds of euros on “One for All” gift-cards from an office supply website.
Loughlin, who plays inter-county camogie for Westmeath, has since repaid her former employer with money she and her partner were saving for a wedding. She also sold her car.

Loughlin of Kilbeggan, Westmeath pleaded guilty to twenty sample counts of theft at The Law Library, Dublin between 2009 and 2014.
The court heard Ms Bolger has taken a “very benevolent view” of the offending. The barrister only reported the matter to gardaí for professional reasons and to ensure it never happened again, prosecuting counsel Anne Rowland SC said.

Judge Melanie Greally said Loughlin had breached the “absolute and implicit” trust of her employer even though she didn’t seem to be under any financial pressures at the time. In mitigation the judge noted Loughlin’s previous good character and her repayment of the money.
Judge Greally said Loughlin was “perilously close” to going to jail. She imposed a two year sentence, suspended for two years.

Garda Stephen Faulkner said that Ms Bolger trusted Loughlin with her credit cards and account details. The barrister would ask Loughlin to make personal purchases online on her behalf.
Sometimes Loughlin would be allowed use the accounts to make purchases for herself on the understanding she would repay Ms Bolger.

Ms Bolger had a good relationship with Loughlin and never checked these accounts. However in 2014 she was alerted to a strange transaction. When she asked her assistant about it, Loughlin assured her it was a mistake.
In August 2014 the barrister noticed another unauthorised payment to Clara’s Closet, a clothes website. Loughlin again said it was a mistake but Ms Bolger decided to spend the weekend going through her various card and online accounts.

When the thefts were uncovered Loughlin was suspended. She claimed she had bought the items unintentionally because she was so used to using Ms Bolger’s cards. She resigned a short time later via text message.
Most of the money went on online shopping but some of it was taken directly from the ATM. On one occasion Ms Bolger gave a €100 cheque to Loughlin’s GAA club as a donation. Loughlin later rewrote the cheque figure to €500.

Loughlin also bought CDs, DVDs and an Ipod, as well as using Ms Bolger’s account to pay for her motor tax. Gda Faulkner said she was very co-operative when arrested. He said he didn’t think she would re-offend.
Defence counsel Oisin Clarke BL said Loughlin, who was named on the Camogie Association’s 2014 “Soaring Stars” team, suffered great stress when the theft was uncovered. He said she always knew she was going to get caught.

Counsel said she and her partner were not wealthy and had now “put their lives on hold” to repay Ms Bolger