A member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na was threatened that he would be stabbed in the throat by a drunken man at the height of an incident at the main bus station in Cork.<\/p>\n
Now at Cork District Court he has been given a \u20ac300 fine by Judge David Waters for the threatening behaviour, at Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
However, the matter will be brought to the attention of Cork Circuit Criminal Court at the end of October by way of the re-entry of a suspended sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sergeant John Dineen said that the defendant, 39-year-old Niall Sheehan, was at Cork Circuit Criminal Court on July 1, 2025, when he got a three-year suspended sentence for possession of drugs for sale or supply and for allowing a premises to be used for the preparation of drugs for supply.<\/p>\n
As a result of his new conviction that matter will be re-entered as he was obliged to keep the peace and be of good behaviour as a condition of the sentence being suspended.<\/p>\n
The incident at the bus station at Parnell Place in Cork, occurred at 10pm on Saturday night, June 6.<\/p>\n
Sgt Dineen said: \u201cGarda\u00ed on mobile patrol were flagged down by security at the bus station on Parnell Place, a public place, who reported an intoxicated man bothering passengers and refusing to leave. Garda\u00ed met with Niall Sheehan who presented as intoxicated.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarda\u00ed gave Mr Sheehan a direction to leave the bus station. Niall Sheehan refused to comply with the direction and shouted at one garda: ‘I’m going to come back with a knife and stick it in your throat’, in view of other members of the public.”<\/p>\n
Mr Sheehan with an address at an apartment at Breemore, Old Blackrock Road, Cork, had three previous convictions for threatening behaviour and five for being intoxicated and a danger.<\/p>\n
Joseph Cuddigan solicitor, said the accused had no previous assault conviction or for carrying knives and added: \u201cI think the garda\u00ed would have taken it as vulgarity rather that a threat with any seriousness. That does not gainsay the garda\u00ed should not be exposed to that kind of comment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na was threatened that he would be stabbed in the throat by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34756,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-634875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-courts","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634875","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=634875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}