Passengers on a train alerted garda\u00ed about a man in a carriage who was clearly in possession of a steak knife and while he pleaded guilty to possessing it he claimed it was for fishing.<\/p>\n
Richard Glavin, aged 59, of Ashmount Court, Silversprings in Cork, \u201cis acutely aware of the risk of a prison sentence\u201d, his solicitor Frank Buttimer told Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
Sergeant John Dineen said: \u201cThere was a report from passengers on a train that there was a passenger with a steak knife.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sgt Dineen said that at around 8pm last August 17, garda\u00ed arrived at the platform and found that the man who allegedly had the knife was the last person in the carriage.<\/p>\n
The charge states that on August 17 at Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann, Kent Station, Lower Glanmire Road, Cork, he had a knife which had a blade or which was sharply pointed, contrary to the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act.<\/p>\n
Judge Catherine Ryan said after seeing a photograph of the knife and hearing the explanation about having it for fishing, \u201cIf that is the actual size of the knife I would be very concerned about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Buttimer said: \u201cHe was intoxicated when searched. The knife was in his bag. He had been fishing in Cobh. It is a steak knife with a 6in blade. He had other fishing paraphernalia in his bag.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat makes him guilty of the offence was the visibility of the knife, which precludes him from saying he had a lawful reason for having it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad it not become visible there would not have been a complaint. The garda\u00ed would not have had to search him and find the knife.<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate the concern the court has for knives and knife crime. There is nothing otherwise sinister in relation to his conduct. I would ask for a non-custodial sentence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Judge Ryan said: \u201cIt is a very serious offence, it carries up to 12 months in prison \u2014anyone carrying an implement with a blade.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge said the matter would have caused great concern for members of the public, including tourists during the summer period.<\/p>\n
The judge imposed a sentence of two months suspended.<\/p>\n
\u201cI take it he has learned his lesson \u2014 any fishing gear has to be carefully packed away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers on a train alerted garda\u00ed about a man in a carriage who was clearly in possession of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,2013,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-274841","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-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115861790701858415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274841","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=274841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}