Anto Boyle says that he overheard it wasn't the first time the man
in the post above (centre pic) had been arrested for a similar act.
He looks very like Romanian national Ionas Carolea who
plead guilty in Sep 2022 to masturbating in front of two undercover gardaí in the public toilets of the Marks & Spencers on Mary St in Dublin after gardaí set up a surveillance operation in the toilets which resulted in the arrest of several men for similar behaviour. Gay Community News
criticised the arrests at the time.
Carolea was fined €500 after his defence solictor told the court he had attended psychotherapy, resulting in an extensive report and that it wouldn't happen again.
In March 2023, Carolea was given an
8 month suspended sentence for groping an M&S employee who was washing his hands in these same toilets after trying to open the man's zipper. Carolea had emerged from one of the cubicles masturbating before the assault. This was one of the incidents which lead to the surveillance operation being set up.
