An off-licence which sold alcoholic drink to two 15-year-olds on Junior Cert results night was yesterday ordered to close for two hours.
Kingsbrook Investments, trading as Spar supermarket, Carpenterstown Road, Castleknock, Dublin, pleaded guilty to selling to minors on September 14th, 2005.
Dublin District Court heard two girls, aged 15, bought two bottles of vodka.
They provided ID but it was not checked, Garda Kevin Flatley said. The girls were among a large group of Junior Cert students getting on buses in the car park attached to the supermarket.
Judge John O'Neill initially imposed a fine of just €100.
But this was recalled later yesterday afternoon after it was discovered there was a mandatory closure order in all cases involving serving underage people.
Judge O'Neill noted he had not been informed when it was first called that it was the night of Junior Cert results "when everybody is put on notice (about underage drinking)." He ordered that the two-hour closure order come into effect on Saturday, December 9th at 2pm. The fine of €100 also stood and he did not endorse the licence.