Corkman used timber with protruding screws to attack paramedic 

Court told attack was random and unprovoked

The ambulance paramedic was waiting with a patient at Cork University Hospital when the attack occurred.

A length of timber with screws protruding from it was used by a 70-year-old Kinsale man to attack an ambulance paramedic at the emergency unit of Cork University Hospital in a totally unprovoked incident.

George Irwin of Hven Bay, Kinsale, County Cork, pleaded guilty to production of an article capable of causing injury, in order to intimidate another person, and a count of obstructing gardaí.