{"id":422062,"date":"2026-04-28T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:48:11","slug":"drunk-man-was-taken-to-hospital-after-stripping-off-in-cork-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422062\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk man was taken to hospital after stripping off in Cork city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A drunken man stripped off his clothes after 9pm on Cornmarket Street in Cork and today he was convicted and fined for being so drunk that he was a danger to himself or others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> 33-year-old Stephen O\u2019Sullivan of 96 Togher Road, Togher, Cork, was not present in Cork District Court where the case was dealt with in his absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Garda Cian Hennessy said the incident occurred after 9pm on March 25 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cGarda\u00ed were flagged down by security staff in relation to an intoxicated male after removing his clothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe spoke to Stephen O\u2019Sullivan who was very intoxicated. He was arrested under the Public Order Act for his own safety and conveyed to Bridewell garda station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHis condition deteriorated and he was taken by ambulance to Mercy University Hospital,\u201d Garda Hennessy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Mary Dorgan said that on a charge of being so intoxicated that he was a danger to himself or others, the only penalty available is a fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The judge fined him \u20ac350.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sergeant Dineen said the accused man had 30 previous convictions for the same offence. He had a total of 93 convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drunken man stripped off his clothes after 9pm on Cornmarket Street in Cork and today he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-422062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422062","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=422062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}