A bareknuckle fighter has been ordered not to post any further videos on YouTube.
Judge Keenan Johnson made the order after footage of 28-year-old Joe Joyce hitting his wife in a garda station was shown at Tullamore Circuit Court today.
The court had been told that Mr Joyce had posted a video on YouTube where he challenged another party to a fight and held up a letter from his solicitor, Mark Cooney, Athlone.
Mr Joyce, with an address at 79 Trasna Way, Lisnaskea, Enniskillen, received a two-and-a-half year sentence for assaulting his wife Ellen at Tullamore Garda Station on 27 February, 2016.
The sentence was suspended for 10 years on condition he kept the peace, remained outside the jurisdiction and not have any interaction with YouTube.
Judge Johnson also told him to take down any existing videos within 14 days.
He made the order after a sentencing hearing was told by prosecution counsel Shane Geraghty that Mr Joyce had posted the video featuring a letter from his solicitor.
Joe Joyce told the court he did not know anything about the video and there were lots of similar videos out there.
Earlier, Judge Johnson had viewed footage from the incident in the garda station and described it as a savage attack by a thug and a bully.
Ellen Joyce told the court she accepted her husband's apology, was happy with him and their four children, and said a cut on her head that night was where an injury from a previous fall had reopened.
She attributed her husband's behaviour on YouTube videos to his medication.
Judge Johnson said if the video of him hitting his wife was put up on YouTube it would show the bully and thug he is.
Noting that Mr Joyce was also on a previous suspended sentence arising from a feud, he said the defendant was still involved in feuding, but at a distance, on videos.
He said he had seen the type of vitriol and hatred that was spread on the videos.
In the case before him, he did not wish to jail Mr Joyce and cost the taxpayer more money, so he restated a previous order that the man stay outside the jurisdiction except for three weeks each year and for family bereavements.
