Teen who needs to be 'kept safe from himself' gets 3-month spell in Oberstown

Judge sentences youth to three months at detention centre following broken curfews and drug problems

The teenager had failed to keep to a curfew at his residential centre.

A 16-year-old appearing before the Children’s Court in Cork was sentenced to a period in detention at Oberstown as the judge said needed to be “kept safe from himself”.

The teenager has been before the juvenile court on various probation bonds over a prolonged period but now Judge Colm Roberts said he had made promises that he had not kept.