Carrigaline teenager charged with brandishing a handgun at his home

Conor Farrell is also charged with causing criminal damage to a €400 flatscreen television at the family home

Conor Farrell was remanded in custody to appear at Cork District Court again on July 24. File picture: Larry Cummins

Gardaí arrested a teenager and charged him with a firearms charge and a count of causing criminal damage following an investigation of an alleged incident at a house in Carrigaline on Monday evening.

Garda David Shannon arrested 18-year-old Conor Farrell of 9 Ferney Court, Carrigaline, County Cork, and brought him before Cork District Court on Wednesday.

The teenager was charged with two counts, and when cautioned that he did not have to reply but that anything he might say would be written down and could be given in evidence, he made no reply.

He was charged that on Monday, July 15, at his home at Ferney Court, while committing an offence, namely criminal damage, in the course of a dispute, he produced in a manner likely to intimidate another person an article capable of inflicting serious injury, namely a black handgun, contrary to the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act.

The second charge was that he intentionally or recklessly caused criminal damage to a €400 flatscreen television at the family home. Both charges refer to July 15 at the house at Ferney Court in Carrigaline.

Garda David Shannon said there was a garda objection to bail being granted to the accused. Diarmuid Kelleher solicitor said there was no application for bail on Wednesday.

Mr Kelleher applied for a court direction to the prison authorities that the teenager would be given whatever psychiatric attention he may require in prison. Judge John King acceded to that application.

Conor Farrell was remanded in custody to appear at Cork District Court again on July 24. His court appearance on that date will be by video link from prison.

Garda account

A garda spokesperson previously stated that gardaí responded to reports of a male armed with a weapon at the house in Carriagline at around 7pm on Monday.

“Uniform Gardaí from Carrigaline attended the scene with assistance from the District Detective Unit and the Regional Armed Support Unit,” the spokesman said.

It is understood gardaí cordoned off the house and surrounding properties for a time while they engaged with the teenager, before the weapon was allegedly thrown out of a window and an arrest was made.

Other than the alleged weapon being referred to as a black handgun there was no other description of it in court.