Garda patrols to tackle rock throwers who target busses

Gardaí are mounting extra patrols at motorway bridges on the outskirts of Cork City after a spate of rock-throwing at passing vehicles, the latest involving boys as young as nine who shattered a side window on a passing Bus Éireann Expressway.

Gardaí are determined to nip the potentially lethal practice in the bud, saying that it is a miracle that nobody has been seriously injured or killed.

They believe that three boys aged nine and 10 were involved in damaging the Expressway Service on the northern outskirts of Glanmire shortly after noon on Monday.