Boy, 17, tried to push garda off flat balcony, court told

A 17-year-old boy tried to push a Garda off a third floor flat complex balcony it was alleged at the Dublin Children’s Court yesterday.

The boy has been charged with a spate of offences mostly for thefts and one for assault causing harm to a garda, at a south inner city Dublin flat complex, on September 17 last.