Gardaí assaulted after wine stolen from shop in Cork

Gardaí were assaulted outside a church in Cork in October 2014 after the theft of four bottles of Valentino pinot grigio from a shop.

Judge Olann Kelleher said yesterday that assaults on fire officers, hospital staff and gardaí had to be viewed as serious matters and he imposed jail sentences on two men who pleaded guilty to charges that included counts of assaulting gardaí.

Garda Kieran O’Callaghan said that, at 12pm on October 4, 2014, gardaí became aware the four bottles of wine had been stolen from Centra on Tory Top Rd. Almost an hour later, they spotted a silver Toyota Corolla parked across the road from the church in Ballyphehane. There was a disturbance at the scene of the trio’s arrest.