Gardaí called over abusive patient in hospital emergency department

Fifty patients were in a hospital emergency department when a woman was so abusive that gardaí were called.

She then turned her abuse on one of the female officers, saying: “You think you are great in your uniform. You are too small to be a guard, you dirty fucking tramp.”

That was the verbal outburst from Mary Cash in front of 50 people in the waiting room at St Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Garda Aoife Walsh testified at Cork District Court.