Hospital security man was confronted by Corkman with knife on his way to work

The defendant's solicitor told the court: "When I asked him what was happening at the time he said he was protected by Canon Law and he referred to power-sharing in Northern Ireland.” 

The court heard “the security guard at the Mercy had a run-in with him (the accused) a few months beforehand." File photo: Eddie O'Hare

A security man at Mercy University Hospital had a knife pulled on him on his way to work by a man he had dealt with months earlier at the emergency unit of the hospital.

Donal Heaphy of 5 Peacock Lane, North Monastery Road, Cork, who appeared at Cork District Court by video link from prison produced the knife at 9.30am in the morning as the security man walked to work.