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AN intoxicated defendant who shouted at a judge that he wanted to go on his holidays got his wish. But instead of making a hotel reservation Michael McCarthy (26) of 6 Watery Road, Ennis found himself a guest of the State for a week.
McCarthy appeared in_ court charged in connection with an al- leged incident in Corofin.
But his case was held over because, solicitor Tara Godfrey said, it was tracking another case before the Cir- cuit Court.
When McCarthy heard that the case was not to be dealt with on Fri- day , he shouted that it was “now or never. I’m going to walk. I’ve to go on my holidays.”
As he left the courtroom he told a garda who remonstrated with him to “fuck off” and Judge Joseph Mangan ordered that McCarthy be brought back into the body of the court.
Judge Mangan asked the court Garda whether there was a smell of alcohol from McCarthy and was told that there was. “Is this man intoxi- cated?” the judge asked, to which the garda relied “he is.”
McCarthy told the court “I’ll lose my job, coming here.”
Ms Godfrey told the court that it would not be possible to deal with the case because of the Circuit Court proceedings and Judge Mangan said it “is not possible to dealt with it when he is intoxicated”.
He ordered McCarthy remanded in custody until July 4.