Son ‘broke table off mother’s back’

A young man flew into a rage in the family home and broke a table across his mother’s back, a Garda Inspector said at Cork District Court yesterday.

Alex McSweeney, of 50 Cherry Lawn, Church Rd, Blackrock, Cork, pleaded guilty to breaching a protection order by putting his mother in fear at the family home on Saturday.

Inspector Ronan Kenneally then went on to outline the background to the case.