Wife makes racial insults in Cork court as she asks to drop assault charges against husband

The woman told the court: "It was an argument between a man and wife. I hit him first. Will you please leave him out now?” 

Judge Kelleher told Laura Cash to leave the court as soon as she made the racial insults. File photo: Dan Linehan

A woman who was allegedly assaulted by her husband at a hotel in Cork insisted on Monday that her husband should be released from prison and made racial insults about two hotel staff who were also allegedly assaulted by her husband.

36-year-old Daniel Cash of 8 Emmett Street, Mountmellick, Portlaoise, County Laois, appeared at Cork District Court by video link from prison. He faces three separate assault charges.