Granny jailed for refusing to wear a face mask

Big Gerry · 23-05-2021 8:41pm #1

Unbelievable sending a Granny to jail for refusing to wear a face mask.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/gran-sent-to-prison-over-refusal-to-wear-mask-40455194.html

A grandmother who “moved from defiance to openly challenge” the State by her steadfast refusal to wear a mask in shops and in court because of Covid-19 was remanded in prison for the weekend.

whisky_galore · 23-05-2021 8:42pm

Serves her right, stupid gowl.

[Deleted User] · 23-05-2021 8:43pm

Why is it important that she is grandmother? Sympathy plea?

Donald Trump · 23-05-2021 8:44pm

Attention seeking.

Speedline · 23-05-2021 8:44pm

I wonder is she still smirking in Cork Prison. I'd say the weekend will have knocked a bit of sense into her.

UDAWINNER · 23-05-2021 8:45pm

Deserves everything she gets especially as a lot of these restrictions were designed to protect the elderly.

Northernlily · 23-05-2021 8:48pm

Probably another naive soul that ventured a bit far down the FB Covid conspiracy hole.

Plenty went the same way. I have some sympathy for those that distinguish fact from fiction.

[Deleted User] · 23-05-2021 8:49pm

Big Gerry wrote: »

Unbelievable sending a Granny to jail for refusing to wear a face mask.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/gran-sent-to-prison-over-refusal-to-wear-mask-40455194.html

I see you take the "rules are for some and not for others" approach.

questionmark? · 23-05-2021 8:50pm

She was jailed for Contempt of Court not for not wearing a mask.

Speedline · 23-05-2021 8:53pm

questionmark? wrote: »

She was jailed for Contempt of Court not for not wearing a mask.

She was jailed for contempt of court for not wearing a mask.

Donald Trump · 23-05-2021 8:53pm

I hope she didn't see what happened to Fran in Love/Hate when he got locked up :eek:

[Deleted User] · 23-05-2021 8:57pm

Big Gerry wrote: »

Unbelievable sending a Granny to jail for refusing to wear a face mask.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/gran-sent-to-prison-over-refusal-to-wear-mask-40455194.html

Crimes do not have an age limit.

Sleeper12 · 23-05-2021 9:01pm

Big Gerry wrote:

Unbelievable sending a Granny to jail for refusing to wear a face mask.

Contempt of court

Hello 2D Person Below · 23-05-2021 9:03pm

My granny is still in her home.

Smee_Again · 23-05-2021 9:04pm

No sympathy for her, she sounds like a complete arsehole who was going out of her way to break the law.

ClosedAccountFuzzy · 23-05-2021 9:06pm

Do we have to add these terms like “grandmother” as if that somehow changes everything.

[Deleted User] · 23-05-2021 9:07pm

People like her really pee me off. The vast majority of people are doing their best to get on top of Covid and then morons like her throw it in their faces. Many of us lost family members and other loved ones during the pandemic and were not able to say goodbye or attend funerals. She deserves flogging, not jail. Sorry if that seems a bit harsh, but I’m feeling emotional after losing a dear friend. Not Covid related, thankfully, but not being able to visit her in hospital was so, so hard.

Annasopra · 23-05-2021 9:08pm

These are the consequences of her actions including abusing shop workers and contempt of court. Her own fault and just because she has Grandchildren doesnt mean she deserves sympathy.

Beasty · 23-05-2021 9:09pm

What has the fact she is a granny got to do with it? Are any of us who have grandchildren subject to more relaxed laws than everyone else?

drunkmonkey · 23-05-2021 9:18pm

FuzzyThinking wrote: »

Do we have to add these terms like “grandmother” as if that somehow changes everything.

Aren't we meant to be protecting granny not sticking her in a confined high risk location.
I don't know how it's come to this all she needed was a reasonable excuse, no cert or anything like that is required.

biko · 23-05-2021 9:21pm

questionmark? wrote: »

She was jailed for Contempt of Court not for not wearing a mask.

From article

She was found guilty of the offence of not wearing a mask in breach of the Covid-19 public health regulations.

but also

remanded in custody for three days for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask when she appeared before the court.

Smee_Again · 23-05-2021 9:22pm

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Aren't we meant to be protecting granny not sticking her in a confined high risk location.
I don't know how it's come to this all she needed was a reasonable excuse, no cert or anything like that is required.

She’s obviously spent too much time hanging out on similar sites to you.

ClosedAccountFuzzy · 23-05-2021 9:22pm

She’s a 66 year old woman. My grandmother was successfully running two businesses at that age, doing yoga and hitting the gym 3 days a week and jetting off to the canaries.

Convenient and patronising nonsense in this thread.

ted1 · 23-05-2021 9:24pm

Big Gerry wrote: »

Unbelievable sending a Granny to jail for refusing to wear a face mask.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/gran-sent-to-prison-over-refusal-to-wear-mask-40455194.html

Age is no excuse.

Smee_Again · 23-05-2021 9:24pm

biko wrote: »

From article

Ah biko you never fully read the articles do you? She hasn’t been sentenced for that offence yet.

Margaret Buttimer (66) – who was previously described before Clonakilty District Court as “an enigma” – will be sentenced on Monday after being remanded in custody for three days for repeatedly refusing to wear a mask when she appeared before the court.

[Deleted User] · 23-05-2021 9:26pm

"Citizen refuses to wear a facemask in contravention of public health regulations and has been accused of contempt of court".

Fixed.

El Tarangu · 23-05-2021 9:27pm

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Deleted User] · 23-05-2021 9:27pm

The store manager mentioned in the article works in my shop now, one of my colleagues asked him about this and apparently she went into several shops in clonakilty pulling this no mask nonsense and verbally abusing staff.