Kilcoole Man ‘Embarrassed’ Over Garda Death Threats

Kilcoole, yesterday, just after brunch…

arda were called to Cooldross Close in Kilcoole on June 9th after reports of a domestic dispute.

There they found Martin O’Brien on the street and stumbling to stay on his feet, with a “strong smell of alcohol” on his breath.

He confronted the gardaí, shouting at them to “get the fuck out of my estate or I will kill your family”.

Appearing at Bray District Court this week, O’Brien was charged for intoxication in a public place and engaging in abusive or insulting behaviour on said date.

His solicitor informed the court that his client had been involved in a major road accident and had sustained a serious brain injury that left him taking ten different medications daily. Letters from both O’Brien’s GP and from Brain Injury Ireland were presented to court to back up this claim.

For his part, O’Brien said that he was “ashamed and embarrassed” by his behaviour on the night in question, with his solicitor stating that his “actions were not his general demeanour”.

According to court reporter Darragh McCann in The Sunday World, the accused is already serving a four-year driving ban and previously had a sentence suspended for three months.

Taking the brain injury into account, the judge didn’t enforce the suspended sentence but found O’Brien guilty under Probation Act Section 1.1.