Girl, 17, who attacked three gardaí awaits sentence

A 17-year-old girl, who developed a drink problem, started a fire in a Garda station and attacked three female officers, after she had been put on to the streets by her mentally ill mother, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

The Children’s Court heard yesterday that during one incident she approached a man on Dublin’s Middle Abbey Street, on November 13 last, brandishing a broken snooker cue but was disarmed by another member of the public. Afterwards she told gardaí: "I only did it for a laugh, I thought it was funny."