Women claim man threatened to kill them with a knife after dogfight in Skibbereen

Judge Helen Boyle said: “Smaller dogs nearly always start the fights in my experience.” 

Sergeant Pádraig Ó Conchúir objected at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to bail being granted to Marius Karanauskas. File picture: Larry Cummins 

Gardaí objected to bail being granted to a Lithuanian national who allegedly produced a knife and threatened to kill two women on an afternoon in the square in Skibbereen following an altercation between dogs.

Sergeant Pádraig Ó Conchúir gave evidence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court in the prosecution objection to bail being granted to Marius Karanauskas, a middle-aged man of Upper Bridge Street, Skibbereen, County Cork.