Street drinker asked to move on from Cork church called garda 'dirty Dub', court told

The garda had earlier asked 10 men to move on when he caught them drinking on the church steps one lunchtime.

Garda Alan Hurson said gardaí at Watercourse Road garda station had received numerous complaints about people drinking outside the Church of the Annunciation in Blackpool. File photo: Richard Mills.

A member of An Garda Síochána trying to clear lunchtime street drinkers from the steps outside a Cork church was verbally abused as “a dirty Dub” by one of the men.

Garda Alan Hurson said gardaí at Watercourse Road garda station had received numerous complaints about people drinking outside the Church of the Annunciation in Blackpool.