PRISON SENTENCES FOR EMYVALE MAN WHO KNOCKED TEENAGER OFF BIKE

AN EMYVALE MAN who reached from a passing car to push a young teenager off his bicycle last summer was given sentences amounting to 10 months’ in prison when he appeared at Monaghan District Court on Monday last.
Thomas McCarron, aged 22, of Killydreen, Emyvale pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm in relation to the incident, in which 13-year-old Conor McKenna sustained cuts and bruises after being deliberately knocked from his bicycle while training to take part in an Ulster championship cycling competition.
In imposing a six-month prison term …