Man told Cork teenagers he was an undercover garda

 Judge Kelleher jailed the accused for nine months for the crime.

Young teenagers at the skateboard park in The Mardyke in Cork were approached by a man impersonating a member of An Garda Síochána who asked for their names and addresses, what was in their bags and whether they had phones.

Stephen Coughlan who is in his mid-twenties and from Maulbawn, Passage West, County Cork, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court to the charge of impersonating a garda at 4.30 p.m. on the afternoon of September 13, 2020.