A PUBLICAN who was caught allowing 'nuns' to drink
on his premises after hours twice on the same night after a charity
event has been fined €700.
Listowel publican Christy Walsh was fined €500 for a second
after-hours offence when 30 people dressed as nuns were found on his
premises.
He had been fined €200 for the same offence at Listowel District
Court the previous week when 21 'nuns' were found drinking at the Well
Bar in the Co Kerry town.
His solicitor Maurice O'Sullivan last week told Judge Angela Ni
Chonduin that he could plead his client could not refuse nuns but did
not know if that would get him anywhere.
The offences occurred last July 1 after the town had tried to get
into the Guinness Book of Records for having the greatest number of
people dressed as nuns in one place.
Mr Walsh was on the committee of Nunday in which 1,436 men, women and
children dressed as nuns set a new record and raised thousands of euro
for Pieta House, the suicide prevention charity.
He told the Irish Independent: "I'm disappointed with the fine, but
it won't stop me from doing charity work again." Mr Walsh said those
found on the premises had been waiting for taxis.