Drunk man verbally abused  teacher and struck garda at airport

A man who was drunk on a flight landing in Cork verbally abused a teacher on a school tour as ‘a paedophile’ and when questioned about the matter he struck an immigration officer on the face with his passport.

Alan Leahy, of 27 Ashmount Mews, Silversprings, Cork, denied assaulting Garda James Ahern on April 29, 2018, at Cork Airport and also denied engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and being drunk and a danger. The contested case went on at Cork District Court for almost two hours. However, after seeing all of the CCTV of the incidents, Leahy changed his plea to guilty to all charges.