Man put up sign saying he cured Haughey of cancer

A MAN who displayed on a busy road a sign claiming he had cured both former Taoiseach Charles Haughey and RTÉ’s Northern Correspondent Tommy Gorman of cancer appeared in court yesterday.

The court heard the sign, placed on the main Cork/Waterford road by the 67-year-old, had caused deep offence to many people.

The false claim landed Thomas Walsh, who resides in a mobile home at Boherboy, Grange, midway between Dungarvan and Youghal, before Judge James McNulty at Dungarvan District Court on charges of assaulting a Waterford County Council litter warden and a garda officer on separate occasions.