Gardai were forced to call for back-up and had to use pepper-spray and batons after a young woman and her godmother fell out at a GAA Club.
Gardai had to draw batons during row
Sharieen McCrudden and her aunt Michelle Gallagher fell out when the pair met at Sean MacCumhaills GAA Club in December 2011.
There had been bad blood between the pair for some time before after an incident following the death of Ms McCrudden’s brother.
Gardai were called to the disturbance at the Ballybofey venue but were forced to call for reinforcements when other fights broke out.
Ms McCrudden, 21, appeared before today’s sitting of Letterkenny District Court.
McCrudden, of Kinletter, Ballybofey, was charge with assault, a breach of the peace, affray and being drunk and disorderly on December 11th.
Solicitor Lisa Finnegan told the court that there was a lot of history to the case.
She said there had been bad blood between the pair since Ms McCrudden’s brother Gavin had taken his life by suicide.
There had even been a difficulty when it came to buying funeral wreaths, she said.
She said her client had been on medication for depression and when this had been mixed with alcohol it had caused her problems.
She said the events of the night had sounded a lot worse than they were and not all the disturbances involved her client.
She pleaded with Judge Denis McLoughlin to be lenient as Ms McCrudden was doing a course in childcare and any conviction would damage her chances of future work.
Judge McLoughlin adjourned the case until December 16th for a probation report and said he may take a ‘certain approach’ if McCrudden behaved herself.