Addict and partner charged with assaulting gardaí

A SELF-CONFESSED heroin addict and his partner appeared in court yesterday after a series of incidents in which two gardaí were alleged to have been assaulted in Cahir in south Tipperary.

Gerard Brown, aged 25, and mother-of-three Jennifer O’Mahoney, aged 26, both of Upper Friar Street in Cashel, Co Tipperary, were brought before Dungarvan District Court yesterday morning after alleged incidents on Tuesday night.

Both were remanded in custody with consent to bail.