Man said he’d bite off the noses of ‘pig’ gardaí

Gardaí were threatened their noses would be bitten off by a man who called them “pigs”.

Liam Doyle, of 66 Greenhills Court, South Douglas Rd, Cork, yesterday pleaded guilty, at Cork District Court, to being threatening and to being drunk and a danger.

Solicitor Frank Buttimer said the defendant had been “tipped over the edge” by the death of his twin sister in October. He was in or about the Silversprings Hotel when an incident occurred around 4am one morning in November. There was a saga about the non-arrival of a taxi, Mr Buttimer said. “He lost the run of himself.”