Teen accused of student's stabbing remanded on bail

A schoolboy, who has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Leaving Certificate student last weekend, has been remanded on bail to allow gardaí to prepare a file on the case for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Sean Nolan (aged 18) from Griffith Court, Fairview, Dublin was stabbed in the chest during a row which broke out at around 4am on Saturday, May 26 last.

A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be identified because he is a juvenile, has been charged with assault causing harm to Sean Nolan, at Waterloo Road, Dublin 4, on May 26.

He has also been charged with producing, during a dispute in a manner likely to unlawfully intimidate another, articles capable of inflicting serious injury, a 10-inch bread knife and a six-inch kitchen knife.

Garda Aine Dalton, of Donnybrook station, told Judge Bryan Smyth at the Dublin Children’s Court today that she was seeking an eight-week remand for a file on the case to be prepared and sent to the DPP.

The boy, who was wearing a black jacket, baggy dark blue jeans and grey runners, was accompanied to court by his parents, and remained silent during the brief proceedings today.

Judge Smyth consented to the garda application. He granted legal aid to the teenager and remanded him on bail, with strict conditions, to appear again July 27 next.

The boy’s bail conditions state that he must reside at his family address, obey a curfew to be indoors at his home between the hours of 11pm and 7am, sign on at Donnybrook garda station, surrender his passport and not to apply for a new one or any other travel documents.

The teen, who sat with his head downward down during the court case, is on €200 bail with a €10,000 independent surety.

Defence solicitor Michelle Finan asked for the bail conditions to be varied in certain circumstances. She explained that the teenager was not a “flight risk” and would surrender his travel documents.

However, she said his “parents wanted to be able to take him down the country at weekends. I would ask for the conditions to be relaxed to allow his parents to be able to bring him to locations within the jurisdiction at weekends.”

Judge Smyth agreed to vary the bail conditions’ residency and signing on conditions. However, he stipulated that the gardai must receive “advance notice in writing, detailing where the boy will be and for how long”.

He also said the curfew conditions would apply at these locations and the teen would have to sign on at the nearest garda station.

The teen then left the court through side exit with his parents.