Cork man who engaged in threatening behaviour fined €500

A middle-aged man who denied calling a member of An Garda Síochána a “fucking bollocks” recalled the incident yesterday as the garda in the patrol car taunting him.

Judge Leo Malone convicted Denis Long, aged 54, of 261 Blarney St, Cork, of engaging in threatening words or behaviour on the occasion and he fined him €500.

Long said he made no such comments and that the guard had taunted him by looking at him and laughing at him over the steering wheel of the car.