A 79 year-old man has apologised from "the bottom of his heart" after pleading guilty to sending threatening letters to a number of individuals following a failed planning application.
Longford District Court heard that the letters were sent after planning application lodged by the man was refused in 2019.
Three people who had objected to the application subsequently received letters from the pensioner and one of the letters referred to its purpose as to deal with events "up to the point of death" and mentioned "heavyweight friends" who could inflict "injury or even death" on "three gurriers".
Giving evidence, the man claimed that he had been affected by medicine he was taking to treat cancer and his behaviour was "totally out of order".
He said he had tried to contact the objectors at the time of the planning application but had not received any response.
Judge Seamus Hughes accepted his apology and imposed the Probation Act.
