STAFF at a city centre pub had to contend with a man who threw a knife and then jumped up on the counter in a drunken disturbance at six o’clock in the evening.
Judge Leo Malone imposed a four-month sentence on Michael McInerney, aged 40, of 18 Farran Street, for his behaviour at the Woodford Bar on March 25.
Inspector Adrian Gamble said McInerney was one of two men who entered the bar that evening.
They were refused service because of their intoxicated condition, but they refused to go.
McInerney reacted to this refusal by climbing on to the bar and shouting at staff. He then climbed on to another bar counter.
At one stage he appeared to have dropped a knife and he picked it up and threw it behind the bar where it smashed into the drinks on the back wall.
McInerney pleaded guilty to having the knife and being threatening and intoxicated when he appeared before Cork District Court.
He got a concurrent two-month jail term for another incident in Cork city on the afternoon of June 14 where he seen shouting at a woman and poking his finger into her shoulder.
Frank Buttimer, solicitor, said it did not make the situation any better, but that the woman he was arguing with was his partner and they both had alcohol consumed at the time.
Mr Buttimer said the defendant’s health was quite poor as a result of alcohol consumption.
The total sentence imposed by Judge Malone amounted to four months in prison.
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