Five charged over two-hour stand-off with gardaí

A 22-year-old father of seven and his 46-year-old father of 16 were among five people charged in district court yesterday in relation to an incident that saw a garda hospitalised with a serious head wound and another injured.

The four men and one woman appeared before Judge Brian Sheridan in Mallow District Court having been arrested following a car chase and subsequent two-hour stand-off with gardai in the early hours of Monday morning.

Sammy Quilligan, aged 18, Simon Quilligan, aged 46, Lisa Gray, aged 27, Patrick Cash, aged 35, and John Quilligan, aged 22, were all charged with producing knives, shovels, a rake, a step-ladder, and sticks while threatening to kill or commit serious bodily harm in the course of a dispute at Ballymartin, Dungourney, Midleton, Co Cork, contrary to section 11 of the Firearms and Offensive Weapsons Act 1990.