A large kitchen knife was purchased at Dunnes Stores at Merchants Quay and then produced during an attempted robbery of a staff member, it was alleged in court.<\/p>\n
Donal Burleigh appeared at Cork District Court where the State objected to bail being granted to him, as evidence was given that when questioned he said he wanted to carry out more robberies and to harm staff at other shops.<\/p>\n
Garda Thoms Enright gave evidence in the objection to bail being granted to the accused and said that when arrested and interviewed the 39-year-old accused told garda\u00ed of other crimes he planned to carry out on the day of this attempted robbery at Merchants Quay.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe made full admissions to threatening the member of staff and he told me it is in his head a long time \u2013 that he wants to harm shop assistants and that after he left he was going to get on the 202 bus and go to Mahon Point to rob Curry\u2019s and Tesco.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe was caught red-handed. CCTV shows him committing the act. And he said he fully intends to commit robberies and cause harm to people working in shops.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThe garda\u00ed have a strong belief that if given bail there is a serious danger to members of the public, in particular shop workers,\u201d Garda Enright said.<\/p>\n
Frank Buttimer, the accused’s solicitor, said the alleged incident at Dunnes in Merchants Quay occurred at lunchtime on Tuesday, May 5, and that Donal Burleigh was arrested on that day and did not apply for bail until today (June 16).<\/p>\n
Mr Buttimer said the accused was a voluntary in-patient at a mental health service unit of Cork University Hospital from August last year until May \u201cfor some kind of psychotic or related mental health condition\u201d, and left the facility very shortly before the attempted robbery on May 5.<\/p>\n
Mr Buttimer asked Donal Burleigh, who appeared by video link from prison: \u201cWhy did you not look for bail on the first day?\u201d<\/p>\n
He replied: \u201cI thought back then that someone wanted to attack me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old with an address at Coppinger\u2019s Acre, Bantry Park Road, Fair Hill, Cork, said he would take his medication now if released on bail and return to CUH to see if a structure of care could be put in place for him. He said he would not commit any criminal acts if released.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Gear\u00f3id Davis asked the accused: \u201cWhen you go off your medication what happens?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Burleigh replied:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe voices come back, and the thoughts.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Judge Miriam Walsh said she was taking into consideration everything she heard and concluded: \u201cI am not inclined to grant him bail because of the seriousness of the charges and the evidence before the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I have no medical background myself it appears he is suffering and in great pain. I direct he would get psychiatric care while in custody. I think you will have to be given all sorts of assistance in relation to your issues.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFor the moment I am remanding you in custody. I direct immediate and urgent psychiatric assistance.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Sgt Deasy said directions would have to be obtained from the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n
Donal Burleigh will appear at Cork District Court by video link from prison on the adjourned date, June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large kitchen knife was purchased at Dunnes Stores at Merchants Quay and then produced during an attempted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-503011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503011","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=503011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}