A 42 year old woman has been jailed for two years for harassing a Sinn Fein TD and another woman.
Sonya Egan of the Lawn, Lios Cara, Killeens, Co Cork pleaded guilty last month to harassing then Cork North Central Sinn Fein TD, Jonathan O'Brien and businesswoman, Laura O'Connell between 2018 and 2019.
Judge Helen Boyle of the Cork Circuit Criminal Court jailed Ms Egan for two years for subjecting a Sinn Fein TD and a businesswoman to separate campaigns of harassment in person and on social media, including a false claim they bullied her to the point that she miscarried and contemplated suicide.
Judge Boyle noted that Egan had expressed remorse in a letter to the court for the "upset, anguish, and torment" that she caused both Mr O'Brien and Ms O'Connell but said that she did not realise the impact that her behaviour was having on them until it had got out of control.
She sentenced Egan to three years in jail but suspended the final 12 months and ordered that Egan have no contact directly or on social media with Mr O'Brien or Ms O'Connell or post anything about them on-line for a period of seven years.
