Drunken man annoying people on the streets of Cork given suspended sentence 

A drunken man annoying people on the streets of Cork was warned by a judge that just because he had difficulties he could not go around taking this out on other people.

33-year-old Dylan Duggan of St Vincent’s hostel, Anglesea Terrace, Cork, was given a two-month suspended sentence by Judge Olann Kelleher at Cork District Court.

He pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour and being drunk and a source of danger.

Garda Francis O’Riordan encountered him on July 7 at Bridge Street, Cork.

She responded to a call to attend MacCurtain Street where an intoxicated man was causing a nuisance and annoyance to customers of the Shelbourne Bar and abusing staff at the bar.

Later on Bridge Street he was verbally abusive to Garda O’Riordan. He verbally abused Garda O’Riordan telling her to f*** off and said, “I’ll go wherever I want. Now f*** off. You’ll do nothing.” 

Defence solicitor, Frank Buttimer, said the accused was a 33-year-old alcoholic bereft of a lot of support services.

However, he got a permanent bed at St. Vincent’s hostel in recent days which the solicitor said was a very positive development for him.

The judge said he would not jail the accused and would “give him a chance to take up the bed.”