Accused may not be fit to plead, solicitor tells court

Gearoid Coughlan photographed at an earlier appearance at Bandon District Court on Thursday  June 17. Picture: Larry Cummins

The solicitor for a man accused of seriously harming his mother in an incident last month has said issues are emerging over his client’s fitness to plead.

Plunkett Taaffe made his comments in relation to his client, Gearoid Coughlan of Ballycoughlan, Innishannon, Co Cork, as Mr Coughlan faced charges of theft dating from earlier this year.