Garda threatened with a slash hook

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a one-year jail term on Keith Heaphy, aged 27, of 6 Hegarty Square, Blarney St, Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
Heaphy pleaded guilty to two charges, namely producing a long-handled slash hook and threatening to kill Garda Desmond Prendergast at Hegarty Square on Mar 16.