Gardaí fled from Kerry farmer with gun

Three gardaí had to run for cover through rough Kerry countryside on a dark, cold night after a sheep farmer produced a loaded Winchester rifle and chased them.

Judge Thomas E O’Donnell said it was one of the more bizarre situations he ever came across.

John Joe Kissane, aged 47, of Eirk, Muckross, Killarney, had previously pleaded guilty at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee to two charges of using a Winchester .270 rifle with telescopic sights to threaten to kill or cause serious harm to Garda Denis O’Brien and Garda Sean O’Regan on January 16, 2015, at Eirk, Muckross.