A Moortown joiner was spoken to by police after he interrupted a group of boisterous female primary school teachers having lunch on Monday 10th July, telling them that he’ll wipe the smug look off all their faces if they kept it up.

Mickey ‘the tackle’ Devlin, who is currently balancing his work with minding seven children in the house on their summer holidays, cracked after he heard one of the teachers laughing and saying ‘same time tomorrow, girls’ and opening a fresh bottle of Prosecco, their ninth that morning.

Devlin, whose wife can’t take time off work from delivering Avon stuff around Craigavon, fumed at how the women openly flaunted their time off:

“I was only calling in for a quick pint after doing a job in Ardboe and having to head home to mind these weans. I didn’t need to see them women laughing and joking and winking about being off. They do it on purpose. The VP was full too, at 1pm in the day. I’m sorry for the language I used,”

Devlin was warned about threatening to take the heads off teachers in the future.