Man told garda ‘take the money, I have plenty’

A man approached by gardaí after he had kicked the wing mirror of a car produced a €50 note and threw it at them, saying: “Take the money, I have plenty of it, you look like you need it.”

Following his arrest in the early hours of May 6 last, Ronan Butler of Drombane in Limerick was taken to a Garda station, where he again produced money and said: “This is going nowhere — my grandfather was chief super [Supt] in Henry St.”