Gardaí saw drunk man ‘hanging on to roof’ of taxi

A drunk fisherman caught himself a free ride into Garda custody by clinging to the roof of a taxi, a court has heard.

A Garda patrol car observed a taxi driving from Glentworth St onto Henry St in the early hours of July 4 with Darren O’Loughlin “hanging on to the roof” of the cab.

O’Loughlin, aged 21, with an address in Moyross and who works on trawlers out of Kinsale, damaged the taxi roof plate after he knocked it to the ground.