A man armed with a handsaw and a golf club jumped up on the bonnet of a Garda car at the height of an incident in Gurranabraher, it was alleged, as a judge commented the allegations were at the higher end for the district court.<\/p>\n
Judge Mary Dorgan said she would accept jurisdiction for the case but expressed concern it was at the more serious end in terms of that court\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
Jay Walsh, 26, with an address at 10 Springvale, Old Youghal Road, Mayfield, Cork, faces charges of being drunk and a danger, engaging in threatening behaviour, and being in possession of two weapons.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Aisling Murphy said Garda Claire McCarthy observed the incident on June 29.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarda\u00ed were on mobile patrol on Cathedral Road when they observed a male armed with a saw and a golf club.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the marked patrol car came to a halt on Cathedral Road, he jumped on the bonnet of the patrol car. Garda\u00ed got out of the vehicle and the suspect ran into the middle of Cathedral Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The accused was extremely agitated and aggressive. He continued to wield both weapons in a threatening and aggressive manner. He was intoxicated to such an extent that he was a danger to himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the level of his intoxication and the fact that he was armed with a handsaw and golf club, he was a danger to members of the public in the area. Jay Walsh was unsteady on his feet and incoherent. There was a smell of alcohol from his breath. He was unable to provide his name and address.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He was disarmed and brought to the ground, arrested and conveyed to Gurranabraher Garda Station.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis erratic and paranoid behaviour continued at the Garda station. The defendant was assessed by a doctor at the Garda station and it was deemed necessary for him to attend the hospital. Jay Walsh was released from custody for this purpose.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Judge Dorgan accepted jurisdiction, defence solicitor Diarmuid Kelleher asked for a precis of evidence to be sent to the defence for consideration of whether he would plead guilty or not guilty to the charge. The case was adjourned until October 7 for that purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man armed with a handsaw and a golf club jumped up on the bonnet of a Garda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,54,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-25728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25728","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=25728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}