Two teenagers charged in relation to 'knife fight' in Cork city centre

Det. Garda Crowley said he explained to one of a 15-year-old defendant 'he was lucky he was not killed or the other person was not killed'

The incident is said to have happened on Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork at 6.30pm on Wednesday evening. File picture: Larry Cummins

A 15-year-old boy with autism was brought before Cork District Court charged with injuring another teenager in “a knife fight” on Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork at 6.30pm on Wednesday evening.

It was alleged that this teenager had a knife and the other youth had a broken champagne bottle and that they were making slashing movements towards each other’s head and torso.