Drunk man who verbally abused Cork gardaí and told them to f*** off avoids jail

In a second incident in the city centre, gardaí received a report of a man being restrained following an assault on security staff. They arrived to see the defendant lying on the ground highly intoxicated

A 59-year-old man squared up to gardaí during a drunken incident in Cork City and verbally abused them, and now he has been given an eight-week suspended jail sentence.

Alan Healy, of Cork Simon Community, appeared at Cork District Court, where he pleaded guilty to being so intoxicated he was a danger to himself or others and engaging in threatening behaviour during two separate incidents in Cork City.