{"id":118299,"date":"2025-10-13T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118299\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:31:07","slug":"man-with-bottle-said-he-wouldnt-stab-female-cork-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118299\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with bottle &#8216;said he wouldn\u2019t stab female&#8217;, Cork court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Garda\u00ed ordered a man to drop a broken bottle during an incident in Cork city centre; he did, and said: \u201cI would not stab a female\u201d, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The allegation was made at Cork District Court in the case against 43-year-old Patrick O\u2019Flynn, who lives in a flat at 68 Summerhill North, Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Mary Dorgan requested to hear an outline of the allegations so that she could decide if she would accept jurisdiction to hear the case at Cork District Court. Having heard the outline, she did accept jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr O\u2019Flynn is charged with being drunk and a danger, engaging in threatening behaviour, and possession of a bottle under the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Sergeant John Dineen said Garda Anita O\u2019Rourke responded to a report of an incident at South Tce, Cork, at 7pm on August 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Sgt Dineen said: \u201cGarda\u00ed responded to a report of a man in possession of a broken bottle on South Terrace. On arrival, there were members of the public present and the defendant was on the footpath, holding a broken bottle, which was sharply pointed, in his right hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n            \u201cHe was approached by Garda O\u2019Rourke, who shouted at him to drop the bottle, which he did immediately, and it shattered on the footpath. Garda O\u2019Rourke formed the opinion that he was intoxicated and a danger.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">When charged and cautioned, he replied: \u201cI would not stab a female.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Prosecution statements are to be sent to solicitor Eddie Burke, and the case was adjourned until November 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed ordered a man to drop a broken bottle during an incident in Cork city centre; he did,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2013,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-118299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-court","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}