A member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na who tried to arrest a teenager driving a stolen car at Lissarda was dragged a distance of 80 metres as he hung to the side of the car which was driven dangerously, it was alleged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Garda Brian O\u2019Sullivan gave this evidence at Cork District Court in an objection to bail being granted to a 17-year-old charged with driving a stolen car, two counts of dangerous driving, causing criminal damage and related charges.<\/p>\n
Judge Philip O\u2019Leary acceded to the application by Sergeant Ian Cahalane to remand the accused in detention to the juvenile sitting of Cork District Court on Friday, July 10.<\/p>\n
Garda O\u2019Sullivan testified that the car was stolen in Ballincollig at 5pm on July 6 and it was spotted half an hour later. Garda\u00ed attempted to stop the car but it was driven away at speed from the area.<\/p>\n
At around 5pm on July 7 the stolen car was observed at the Circle K in Lissarda and Garda Richard Caverly opened the driver\u2019s door and tried to arrest the driver. However, the car was allegedly driven a distance of 80 metres with the garda hanging on at the side of the car.<\/p>\n
The driver and three passengers were arrested.<\/p>\n
Garda Niall McCarthy testified that the teenager he arrested and charged with being a passenger in the stolen car was in breach of bail conditions imposed during an earlier court appearance. He is 14 years old.<\/p>\n
Judge Philip O\u2019Leary said to this 14-year-old: \u201cI am giving you bail. You breached bail a couple of times. You are only 14. You have no solicitor in court (because of the solicitors\u2019 strike).\u201d The judge asked the youth if he understood what would happen if he breached the bail given to him on Wednesday and the teenager replied, \u201cOberstown\u201d.<\/p>\n
Judge O\u2019Leary said the last thing the court wanted to do was to send a 14-year-old to detention in Oberstown but he said that is precisely what would happen if he breached bail terms again.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to stay out of trouble,\u201d the judge told the teenager as he left court with his mother. He was remanded on bail until July 24 on conditions that included staying away from named parties and keeping a curfew to be home every night between 9pm and 8am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na who tried to arrest a teenager driving a stolen car at Lissarda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-540409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540409","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=540409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}