Joyriding teen rammed garda car four times

A then 14-year-old boy, who rammed a garda car four times, while joyriding, has been detained for seven months, by Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court.

The now 15-year-old boy, whose behaviour had spiralled out of control, had pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of the life of Garda Alan McCarthy, at Russell Avenue, Dublin 3, on August 12 last.