Woman Who Coughed At Paramedics Is Locked Up For 6 Months

Judge slams ‘appalling’ 30-yr-old who told victims: I have virus

- Gordon Deegan

A Woman was jailed for six months yesterday for coughing at two paramedics and telling them: “I have the virus.”

Judge Patrick Durcan said Rebecca Blunnie’s drunken behaviour on April 10 “was of an absolutely appalling nature”.

The 30-year-old, of Pella Rd, Kilrush, Co Clare, had admitted to the assault of David Meaney and Frank Greaney at Dunogrogue, Killimer, on April 10.

Sgt Aiden Lonergan told Ennis District Court the two paramedics were within 1m of Blunnie when she coughed in the confined space of an ambulance.

Judge Durcan said: “On that date, this country was in a maelstrom in the middle of the worst public health crisis that has ever been experienced here.”