Woman who walked into city centre bar with fake gun and said ‘I’m in the IRA’ avoids jail, lucky Looney?

Karen O’Brien, 52, walked into a city centre bar with an imitation gun in her bag before pulling it out and pointing it at customers Karen O’Brien was given a six-month suspended sentence on Thursday for the offence. Delivering his verdict, Judge Philip Gilpin acknowledged the seriousness of the crime but opted for a suspended sentence, saying that although the custody threshold had been passed, he was imposing a six-month sentence, suspended for a year, reports