Garda has alarming approach to bingo hall, court hears

A GARDA Superintendent who objected to a commercially run bingo hall operating in Cork city was described by the company’s barrister as a man with a mission with a “truly alarming” approach to the issue.

That was how Dermot Gleeson, counsel for Rock Bingo, described Supt Charles Barry at the High Court in Cork yesterday.

Mr Gleeson said the managing director of Omega, James Barber, who was trying to operate Rock Bingo in Togher, Cork, was a highly regarded businessman in the community.