A man who was arrested at the height of a public order incident at Lapps Quay in Cork warned garda\u00ed: \u2018I\u2019m going to cause wreck around Cork city\u201d.<\/p>\n
This was the verbal threat made by Connie Foley, aged 44, of Ceol Na nEan, Mallow, Co Cork, during the incident.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Gear\u00f3id Davis described the background to the incident at Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt occurred at Lapps Quay, Cork, in June 2024. Following a report of anti-social behaviour, garda\u00ed attended Lapps Quay where they met the accused. He was highly intoxicated and called the garda a \u2018fucking scumbag\u2019 while members of the public were present,\u201d Sgt. Davis said.<\/p>\n
Mr Foley then went on to make the threat about \u201cdoing wreck\u201d.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour and being drunk and a source of danger to himself or others.<\/p>\n
He also admitted that, on May 3 this year, he stole \u20ac143 worth of clothing from JD Sports, St Patrick\u2019s St, Cork.<\/p>\n
Sgt Davis said the accused had 144 previous convictions including 37 for being drunk and a danger, 12 for being threatening and abusive, eight for robbery, one for aggravated burglary, four for burglary and 17 for theft.<\/p>\n
Shane Collins-Daly solicitor said: \u201cHe accepts he has a very poor record of offending. He has longstanding alcohol and drugs problems. He moved to Mallow to remove himself from the situation he was in in Cork city.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis mental health problems deteriorated and it led to him being quite unwell. He is suffering from acute paranoia, according to his own instructions. He has a complex psychiatric history. He apologises for committing these offences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Mary Dorgan imposed a total sentence of five months on the defendant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was arrested at the height of a public order incident at Lapps Quay in Cork…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-11629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}