HSE man’s family ‘flee their home in fear’

The family of a HSE official had last week moved out of their home in Cork, in fear, because a man before the court allegedly daubed offensive graffiti on cemetery headstones at a republican plot and painted the innocent man’s name and phone number on the graves.

The damage was committed just days before last weekend’s Easter 1916 commemorations.

Detective Garda Jim Kearney said the man whose name appeared with the graffiti on the headstones at St Finbarr’s cemetery had nothing to do with it.