'I’ll kill ye stone dead' - Corkman said to have threatened girls after firing gun in the air

Cork District Court heard that Gerard O’Reilly is accused of discharging a firearm in the Watergrasshill area at 6pm on April 5 and making the death threat to three girls. File photo: Eddie O'Hare

Three girls were frightened when a man in the middle of a field allegedly fired a shotgun in the air and then pointed the weapon at them shouting, “I’ll kill ye stone dead”. 

That was the allegation at the centre of a case against 58-year-old Gerard O’Reilly of Mitchellsfort, Watergrasshill, County Cork, before Cork District Court.