A man charged in connection with an aggravated burglary at a house in Cork city last Monday morning has told a court that he intends to apply for bail in order to care for his 85 year old father.<\/p>\n
Malcolm Kelly (39) of Coolageala, Kanturk, Co Cork was charged with burglary with intent to commit criminal damage and assault and with a count of criminal damage at a sitting of Mallow District Court on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both alleged offences relate to an incident at Lagan Grove in Mayfield in Cork city at 12.40am on Monday, August 11, during which three men entered a property armed with implements. The intruders confronted the occupants before fleeing.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday Mr Kelly was remanded in custody to appear before Cork District Court today for a bail application and DPP directions.<\/p>\n
Mr Kelly addressed the court via video link today and described himself as being the \u201ccarer\u201d of his father.<\/p>\n
He told Judge Monica Leech that he was waiting on a letter from his doctor, which relates to his forthcoming bail application.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He spoke of his plan to apply for bail when he is before the court next in order to take care of his \u201cvery elderly 85 year old father.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sgt Gearoid Davis said that garda\u00ed were awaiting directions on the case from the DPP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defence solicitor Diana Halloran indicated that her client was consenting to a two week remand in the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Kelly was remanded in custody to appear before Cork District Court on August 29 next.<\/p>\n
The Garda Press Office has previously indicated that a man in his 30s was transferred to hospital by ambulance following the incident at Lagan Grove on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A technical examination was carried out at the scene. Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man charged in connection with an aggravated burglary at a house in Cork city last Monday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,2013,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-1653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork-court","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}