Teen ordered to do what his mother tells him

A troubled 16-year-old who spent the last two weeks in detention in a case related to robbing phones from other youths was warned by a judge yesterday to respect his mother on his release home.

Judge Aingil Ní Chondúin made it a condition of the teenager’s release on bail that he would do what his mother told him at home.

“She is not his maid servant, she is not his assistant. Respect her. If he cannot live with that, then when he is old enough at 18, move out, don’t give grief to anybody,” Judge Ní Chondúin told the teenager at a juvenile hearing of Cork District Court yesterday.