Man banned from Ireland for 20 years unfit to plead after allegedly breaching order

Man had also been ordered not to communicate directly or indirectly with a woman living in west Cork

The accused man was not well enough to attend at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, his barrister Paula McCarthy told Judge Helen Boyle.

A psychiatrist declared on Tuesday that a man with “grandiose delusions”, who is accused of breaching a court order banning him from Ireland for 20 years, is mentally unfit to plead in his case.

Matthew Notman, of Laburnum House, Laburnum Avenue, Kirkby in Nottingham in the UK was not well enough to attend at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, his barrister Paula McCarthy told Judge Helen Boyle.