{"id":537669,"date":"2026-07-07T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537669\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:27:08","slug":"togher-man-is-charged-with-robbery-at-lough-credit-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/537669\/","title":{"rendered":"Togher man is charged with robbery at Lough Credit Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Ballistics tests are to be carried out on what appeared to be a handgun seized by garda\u00ed during the investigation of a case where a man is charged with carrying out an armed robbery at the Lough Credit Union in Cork in May of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Sergeant Gear\u00f3id Davis said at Cork District Court that directions for the case were not yet available from the Director of Public Prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cIt is an alleged armed robbery, and we are awaiting a firearms and ballistics report,\u201d Sgt Davis told Judge David Waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Whether it is a real weapon or an imitation handgun remains to be determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Waters remanded the accused man in continuing custody until July 15 at Cork District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Stephen Murphy, aged 41, of 1 Deanrock Villas, Togher, Cork, appeared by video link from prison before the court, charged with the single count of robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The charge sheet refers to the offence of robbery taking place on Friday, May 15, at the Lough Credit Union, Togher Rd, Cork, on May 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">It is alleged that what appeared to be a handgun was produced by the accused during the robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Similar to other defendants now appearing before Cork District Court, the defendant is without legal representation because of the withdrawal of solicitors\u2019 services in the dispute over free legal aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballistics tests are to be carried out on what appeared to be a handgun seized by garda\u00ed during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,54,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-537669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537669","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=537669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}