Teen ordered to obey 24-hour curfew to ‘protect public’

A 16-year-old youth described by a senior garda as a high risk to society and a nuisance to businesses in Tralee has been ordered to abide by a 24-hour curfew “to protect the public”.

There is no place available for the youth in the Oberstown detention centre and the youth is also awaiting medical and psychological assessments, the court was told.

The youth was before the circuit court on a charge of sexual assault on another youth. He also has a number of public order offences at the district court for which he was remanded on bail last year and told by the judge to abide by a curfew and stay away from the town centre.