Cleary and The Grunt cause havoc in Nenagh
Newtown PRO the Grunt is facing police charges after being found being drunk and disorderly in a public place. The well respected Newtown Board Member was found drunk outside the train station in Nenagh before Christmas, and had to be escorted off the premises by a number of police officers. Quigley put up a fierce struggle, hitting one of the policemen with a Dunne’s Stores bag and verbally abusing another. He was eventually taken to Nenagh General Hospital for examination and probing. However he discharged himself that night and was later spotted in a roundabout further up the town. Quigley was captured on CCTV outside the station drinking cans of Smithwicks with police fugitive Trevor Cleary, who is wanted for deportation. The footage shows the two dancing and singing together outside the station, throwing pencils at passers by. The pencils are believed to belong to Cleary, who sometimes poses as a carpenter.
Club spokesman Colm Madden remained tight-lipped on the fiasco when he spoke to the Guardian reporters at the post match press conference on Sunday. “Pat Quigley Snr was admitted to hospital on Thursday night. But I can neither confirm nor deny that any anal probing took place within the hospital. Nobody at the club knows anything about the activities of former player Trevor Cleary, and we have no more to say on the matter.” Sources inside the club say that the Board of Management have called an emergency meeting to discuss what action to take over the matter, and it is believed that Quigley had been suspended indefinitely.
The Grunts son, Newtown reserve team captain Patsy Quigley also refused to speak on the matter. It is believed that Quigley Snr was upset when Patsy told him he would rather spend Christmas with his uncle Curly Quigley than with him. As a result The Grunt went on a heavy drinking session with Cleary which ended in with the police arresting The Grunt, while Mexican immigrant Cleary fled the scene. Cleary’s whereabouts are still unknown, and how he continues to evade capture remains a mystery. The local Gardai are pleading that anybody with information on the location of the little Mexican to come forward. Cleary is considered armed but not particularly dangerous.