Garda working at Elton John's Cork show thrown in the air by motorcyclist

On July 1 last year, Elton John was performing a concert at Pairc Uí Chaoimh and gardaí had set up a number of traffic cordons to facilitate the large amount of pedestrians in the area at the time.

A member of An Garda Síochána was blown 15 feet in the air by the driver of a powerful motorbike and left injured on the road as he sped away while fans made their way to an Elton John concert.

Sergeant Ciarán Kelleher gave this evidence at the sentencing hearing for the driver of the motorbike, Blake Sheridan of no fixed address and living recently in various addresses in East Cork.