'Concerned' Cork father took law into his own hands by chasing teenagers with a hurley 

Roy Miller was remanded in continuing custody until January

Roy Miller of Peacock Row, North Monastery Road, Cork, pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a weapon, namely the hurley, being threatening and abusive, being drunk and a danger, causing criminal damage and failing to provide his name and address to a garda. File photo

A Cork father who was concerned about the behaviour of a group of teenagers took the law into his own hands and chased them with a hurley rather than reporting the matter to An Garda Síochána.

Frank Buttimer, solicitor, said that 37-year-old Roy Miller now acknowledged that he was wrong to try to deal with the youths himself as he faced sentencing at Cork District Court on a range of charges arising out of this and other incidents.