Drunk man shouted 'I’ll ring my own ambulance' at garda trying to help him

Accused fails to show up at Cork District Court and was convicted and fined in his absence

The accused was fined for threatening behaviour.

Gardaí called an ambulance for a drunken man lying on the floor of a supermarket but he was verbally abusive to the officer who approached him when the ambulance arrived and said: “I’ll ring my own ambulance.”

Justin Kearney, of 53 Lios Na Meala, Banduff Road, Cork, was prosecuted for public order offences arising out of the incident.