Kinsale women takes the piss out of judge Sean Ó Donnabháin

Qui McGill, 34, of Market Place, Kinsale, Co Cork, faced sentence for having €9700 worth of cannabis for sale or supply on September 26, 2020, at Higher O’Connell Street, Kinsale.

She was required by the court to submit a urine sample to be tested. 

As soon as the sentencing hearing commenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, the warning about the urinalysis result was brought to the attention of Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin. The urinalysis report produced in court carried the words – “Sample dilute – proceed with caution.” 

The women's defence barrister then asked the judge if the case could be adjourned so the women can have another opportunity to produce a sample. To which judge SOD replied “To dilute more samples?”

“It is one thing to bring a positive sample [showing the presence of drugs]. It is another to bring a dilute sample. There is a cynicism in this matter bordering on the professional.

“This girl knows well what she is doing. She is a professional drug-dealer.”

Judge SOD clearly was pissed off after this attempt by the women to avoid a positive result. He adjourned the case until September 27th so the woman can get her “domestic matters in order before sentencing”.

According to Detective Garda Colin O’Mahony who said members of the Cork West divisional drugs unit observed the defendant go to a house on O’Connell Street, to which she had access as part of her cleaning work, where she removed a package and brought it to Honeycomb Lodge where she was residing.

When gardaí called, she had €2,700 worth of cannabis on her person and more than €7,000 worth of the drug hidden out the back in a barbecue.

“She did not cooperate. She made certain admissions about drugs on her person but would not comment about drugs in the house,” Det Garda O’Mahony said.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin was driven to smoke a fat cannabis doobie after a woman takes the piss in court with a diluted urine sample.