Man who abused gardaí who were arresting his friend is fined 

GARDAÍ were asked, ‘Why don’t ye do your f***ing jobs?’ when they arrested a man at the scene of a disturbance.

The question was asked of them by a friend of the arrested man who believed that the other man should not have been taken into custody in the first place.

50-year-old Paul Lynch of 13 St Patrick’s Terrace, Greenmount, pleaded guilty to charges of engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and being drunk and a source of danger.

Sergeant Aisling Murphy said the incident at the centre of the case occurred on March 11 at Barrack Street.

“Gardaí received a 999 call to attend the aftermath of an altercation in which a man had been arrested.

“The caller — Paul Lynch — approached gardaí and was highly intoxicated and abusive, looking for an explanation for his friend’s arrest. “He said, ‘Why don’t ye do your f***ing jobs?’ He was advised he would be arrested if he continued with this behaviour. He continued to be abusive to gardaí and he was arrested and conveyed to the Bridewell Garda Station,” Sgt Murphy said.

Eddie Burke, defence solicitor, said Mr Lynch was out minding his own business when one of his friends got into difficulty and got arrested. “Mr Lynch is the one who calls gardaí and says that his friend should not have been arrested. Gardaí tell him to leave well enough alone. But he continued and for his troubles he spent the night in the Bridewell,” Mr Burke said.

Judge Mary Dorgan convicted and fined him €350 for his behaviour and took the drunkenness into consideration at Cork District Court.