A MAN who admitted naming a teenage schoolgirl’s young murderer on Twitter said he did so because “he has daughters himself and was angry.”
Glen Dunphy (35) of Lartigue Village, Listowel, Co Kerry came before Listowel District Court charged with contravening sections of the Children Act 2001, that prohibits the identification of minors accused or convicted of a criminal offence.
Mr Dunphy was charged with that or about June 20, 2019, that he published the name of a child in proceedings before the Central Criminal Court, on his Twitter account.
Mr Dunphy has previously appeared before Listowel District Court where jurisdiction to hear the case was accepted. He appeared again yesterday where he pleaded guilty to the offence.
Man pleads guilty to naming Boy B on social media
Updated / Thursday, 17 Dec 2020
20:42
Dunphy pleaded guilty in Listowel to the single charge and he was convicted and fined €600
A 35-year-old man has been handed down a conviction for contravening the Children Act in naming a teenage murderer on social media.
Glen Dunphy told gardaí he sought out and published the name of a teenager convicted of the murder of a girl because he had daughters himself, a court was told.
The father-of-two, of Lartigue Village, Listowel, was summonsed before Listowel District Court in November, on a single allegation that he had published the name of Boy B - a person whose identity is protected by the Children Act 2001 as a child in proceedings before the Central Criminal Court - on his Twitter account .
A Listowel man says he identified the murderer of a teenage girl because he was angry and has daughters of his own.
35-year-old Glen Dunphy of 53 Lartigue Village, Listowel pleaded guilty to a single charge under the Children Act 2001, when his case came before Listowel District Court today.
It’s was alleged that on the 20
th June, 2019, within the state, Glen Dunphy did publish on his Twitter account the name of a minor, who was a child in proceedings before the Central Criminal Court.
Garda Adrian Gildea, who’s based in Dublin, gave the facts of the case.
He said, following the conviction of two teenage boys last year for the murder of a teenage girl, Glen Dunphy did an online search with the name of a radio station outside Kerry and the alias of one of the convicted murderers, in an effort to find the boy’s real name.