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Jobstown boy ‘sorry for Burton’s protest stress’

   Tom Tuite

   September 22 2016, 12:01am, The Times
   Protesters outside Dublin children’s court yesterday where a boy is on
   trial for falsely imprisoning Joan BurtonROLLINGNEWS

   The schoolboy accused of falsely imprisoning Joan Burton at the
   Jobstown protest against water charges told arresting gardai he was
   sorry for taking part and for the stress he had caused the former
   tanaiste.

   The 17-year-old is accused at Dublin children’s court of falsely
   imprisoning Ms Burton and Karen O’Connell, her adviser, during a
   demonstration at the Fortunestown Road in Jobstown, Tallaght, on
   November 15, 2014.

   The boy, who was aged 15 at the time, denies the charges. The
   prosecution alleges that the women were trapped for more than three
   hours.

   Garda Damian Reilly said that the boy was questioned in the presence of
   his mother and he declined to have a solicitor present. He was told he
   was being questioned in connection with a…
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