‘Tiger in the wild would not do that to a suckling calf’

A man on trial for attacking a member of An Garda Síochána claimed the officer assaulted him and that "a tiger in the wild would not do to a suckling calf" what the detective did to him.

Patrick Fuohy, aged 67, of Ballydaw, Castlelyons, Co Cork, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to Detective Garda Denis Ryan at Fermoy Mart in Corrin on March 21 last year.

Mr Fuohy said he stabbed the garda’s hand with the key of his truck. Asked by his senior counsel, Tom Creed, why he did so, Mr Fuohy replied: “If you were getting bate with that iron bar and blood pumping down out my head... Eleven guards I counted outside and none of them saw blood — they would want to go to Specsavers.