{"id":425274,"date":"2026-04-30T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:13:08","slug":"hatchet-wielding-man-handed-suspended-sentence-by-cork-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425274\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatchet-wielding man handed suspended sentence by Cork court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A man who brandished an axe at the family home as he threatened garda\u00ed that he would take their heads off if they came upstairs was yesterday given a three-month suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Solicitor Frank Buttimer said that matters had stabilised substantially since this incident occurred in July 2025, and that 31-year-old Stephen Murphy, of 143 Farranferris Avenue, Farranree, was now doing much better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Garda David Kiely charged the defendant with resisting Garda Paraic White; threatening to kill or cause serious harm to garda\u00ed; and producing, in a manner likely to intimidate another person, an article capable of causing serious injury \u2014 namely a hatchet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Sergeant John Dineen said the case against Murphy could be dealt with at Cork District Court level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">JURISDICTION<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Mary Dorgan agreed to accept jurisdiction, but added that she would only do so on a plea of guilty being entered by the defendant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr Buttimer confirmed the guilty plea to all charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Sgt Dineen said garda\u00ed were at the defendant\u2019s house on July 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cGarda\u00ed entered the residence with permission, and were met with Stephen Murphy &#8230; brandishing an axe and threatening garda\u00ed,\u201d Sgt Dineen said. \u201cHe waved the axe towards garda\u00ed and stated: \u2018Come up here and I\u2019ll take your head off.\u2019 A stand-off continued until &#8230; the accused surrendered to garda\u00ed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who brandished an axe at the family home as he threatened garda\u00ed that he would take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-425274","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\/425274","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=425274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}