Pair charged after garda injured in high-speed chase

Two men, arrested after a high-speed pursuit during which a garda was injured, have been remanded in custody after being charged with theft and a range of road traffic offences.

The pair, Damien Fitzgerald, aged 27, of Inniscarra Rd, Fairhill, Cork, and John Paul O’Driscoll, aged 27, with an address care of the Simon Community, Cork, were brought before a special sitting of Cork District Court just after 12pm on Saturday where evidence of arrest, charge, and caution was heard.

Garda Robert Kelleher of Douglas Garda Station told Judge Olan Kelleher that he charged Mr O’Driscoll in the early hours of Saturday morning with stealing a vehicle on MacCurtain St on April 17, with theft at the Vienna Woods Hotel on April 18, and with five separate counts of dangerous driving on April 18 — on the Rochestown Rd, at Glencaum, Rathduff, at Clogheen Milcon, Blarney, at Brian Boru Bridge, Cork, and at Parnell Place, Cork.