A man who admitted breaking an Orangeman's cheekbone when violence broke out during a Sunday church parade in Keady, Co Armagh, on July 12th last year has been ordered to pay the victim £250 compensation.
At Armagh Magistrates' Court yesterday, Patrick Gerard McGleenan (29), an electrician, of Crossmore Green, Keady, was also given a three-month suspended jail term for causing actual bodily harm to Mr Norman Barbour.
His brother, Francis Joseph (32), a Keady businessman, received a one-month suspended prison sentence for assaulting Mr Alan Mitchell, who was taking part in the parade. He was also ordered to pay him £100 compensation. Both men were fined £100 each for trying to break up the parade. They had pleaded guilty to all the offences at a two-day hearing last month.
Sentence was postponed until January in the case of Shane Christopher Harte (25), a bricklayer, of Lir Gardens, Keady, who had admitted assaulting Mr Alan Nicholson, another marcher. He is serving a three-month prison sentence imposed in the Republic earlier this month.
At the earlier hearing the magistrate, Mr George Connor, heard the RUC's sub-divisional commander, Supt Frank Blakely, describe the attack on the parade as "brief but quite vicious".