A fist fight in a toy store on the week before Christmas saw two men throwing each other against shelves of toys, spattering blood in the area, and causing families out shopping to take fright.<\/p>\n
This was the evidence that prompted Judge David Waters to refuse jurisdiction in the case against the two men charged with engaging in an affray and causing criminal damage.<\/p>\n
Judge Waters said at Cork District Court that while it was only alleged at the moment, if the men were convicted then a sentence measured in years would be merited rather than a sentence available to the district court which would only run to months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Commenting on the allegations, the judge said, \u201cThis is an appalling display, there was total disregard for families at that time of year.\u201d The cases were then adjourned until October 5 at Cork District Court to allow time for the preparation of a books of evidence.<\/p>\n
38-year-old Brian McDonagh of 6 Devlin Street, Fermoy, County Cork, and 23-year-old Patrick McCarthy of 6 Spring Lane halting site, Ballyvolane Road, are both charged with engaging in an affray and causing criminal damage.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Gear\u00f3id Davis outlined the background to what allegedly occurred at around 4pm on December 18, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said that CCTV from Smyths Toystore at Kinsale Road Commercial Park showed two males walking with purpose towards each other from either end of an aisle.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrian McDonagh and Patrick McCarthy appear to speak very briefly before Brian McDonagh punches Patrick McCarthy causing him to fall onto toys on the shelves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“As they are doing this there is a woman standing near them with a child in her arms. She appears to take fright when she becomes aware of what is happening beside her. She quickly leaves the aisle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“A woman dressed in black walks into the aisle. It is believed this is Sophie McCarthy. She leaves briefly and returns with a security man. Brian McDonagh and Patrick McCarthy continued fighting each other as the security guard attempts to separate them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey throw each other into the shelving at either side of the aisle. They adopt a boxing stance and trade punches. Patrick McCarthy grabs an item from a shelf and throws it at Brian McDonagh. They eventually separate,\u201d Sgt Davis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fist fight in a toy store on the week before Christmas saw two men throwing each other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-617689","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\/617689","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=617689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}