![\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4753635_4_articleinline_DSC_4436.jpeg\" "\\"")
Gary Walsh was denied bail.<\/p>\nTwo brothers who appeared before a special sitting of Mallow District Court in Co Cork on Friday have been refused bail after garda\u00ed alleged that they were involved in the distribution and sourcing of firearms.<\/p>\n
Gary Walsh of Retail Park, Kilmallock, Co Limerick, and his younger sibling Damien Walsh of Trabolgan Rd, Whitegate, Co Cork, were both charged with two firearms offences.<\/p>\n
The men were charged with possessing and having under their control a .22 Calibre Long Rifle, 3D Printed Harlot Pistol, and with possessing and having under their control five .22 Calibre Long Rifle ammunition at Rathgoggin South, Charleville, Co Cork on August 20.<\/p>\n
The court heard that garda\u00ed had searched a car in Charleville on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Det Garda James McCarthy gave evidence of the arrest, charge, and caution of both men.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Judge Monica Leech was told that neither man replied when the charges were put to them under caution.<\/p>\n
Det Insp John O\u2019Connell said garda\u00ed were objecting to bail arising out of the gravity of the charges.<\/p>\n
Det Garda McCarthy said that garda\u00ed searched a car which was being driven by 40-year-old Gary Walsh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He stated that Damien Walsh, aged 32, was a passenger in the Opel Corsa.<\/p>\n
Det Garda McCarthy said that they discovered a loaded 3D printed handgun, which was a viable firearm, in the space between their seats by the handbrake.<\/p>\n
He said that the State would claim that Gary Walsh was involved in the sourcing and supply of firearms.<\/p>\n
Gary Walsh was denied bail.<\/p>\n
He said that they they would base this allegation on videos and WhatsApp voice recordings found on the phone of the accused.<\/p>\n
He said the videos depicted the gun being handled by a person with a tattoo and that the tattoo seemed to match one on Gary Walsh\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n
He said there were also a voice recording of Gary Walsh having a conversation with a third party about supplying him with a gun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed allege that Damien Walsh was in the car at the time of the conversation.<\/p>\n
Defence solicitor, Joe Cuddigan, said that his client, Damien Walsh, would vehemently refute any suggestion that he heard a conversation of this nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy client says he was not a party to any discussion about the supply of firearms to anyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Judge Leech said that she was denying bail to both men on the grounds of the seriousness of the charges.<\/p>\n
She remanded the men in custody to appear before Mallow District Court next Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They will appear at the vacation sitting of the court via video link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two brothers who appeared before a special sitting of Mallow District Court in Co Cork on Friday have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-17269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-courts","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\/17269","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=17269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}