Man tried to jump off bridge into River Lee after calling garda 'dirty tramp', court told

Cork District Court heard that the accused is in residential rehabilitation

Garda Keith Cahill saw the defendant begging at Trinity Bridge, blocking the free passage of pedestrians. File picture: Jim Coughlan

A young man squared up to a member of An Garda Síochána in Cork city calling him a "dirty tramp" and then tried to jump off a bridge into the River Lee.

That was on August 18 and now at Cork District Court Judge Olann Kelleher has been told that the accused is in residential rehabilitation at Bruree, County Limerick.