A man has been jailed for punching a police officer before getting naked and covering himself in poo.

Customer arrested over McDonald's

Customer arrested over McDonald's

James Marry, 26, has been jailed for eight months after attacking a policeman in a McDonald's restaurant and ripping his stab-proof jacket from him because he intervened in an altercation, Metro newspaper reports.

Subsequently, he was taken to Balbriggan Garda Station, where he got himself naked, defecated and then smeared himself in feces as part of a dirty protest.

Marry - who has six previous convictions to his name - was jailed for eight months by Judge Dermot Dempsey.