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A man accused of endangering after he allegedly rammed a Garda Armed Support Unit at a checkpoint in Cork has failed in his attempt to be released on bail to attend his sister’s wedding next week. .
Andrew Cash (28) of Harper’s Lane, Portaoise, Co Laois applied for bail at the Cork Circuit Criminal Court to allow him to attend his sister’s wedding to be married in Dublin on Monday.
Mr. Cash is charged with three counts of danger, including one in which he collided with a Garda patrol containing two Gardai at Carhoo, Old Mallow Road, Cork, on May 11, 2018.
He is also charged with two counts of criminal damage, as well as 16 traffic offenses, including dangerous driving, driving without insurance, and driving without a driver’s license in various places in Cork on the same date.
Mr. Cash’s lawyer, Paula McCarthy BL, told Judge Helen Boyle that her client wanted to attend her sister’s wedding and was willing to meet the conditions Gardaí was seeking to obtain bail to attend weddings.
She said he was willing to register at his local Garda station as often as Gardaí required, while complying with the curfew Gardaí would seek, as well as surrender his passport and refrain from taking any intoxicants.
But Sergeant Niall O’Connell of Anglesea Street Garda Station said Gardaí objected to Mr. Cash getting bail due to the seriousness of the charges against him and his belief that it posed a flight risk if I gave him bail.
He said that the state was basing its objection on the strength of the prosecution case against Mr. Cash, stating that the state had strong evidence linking him to the various crimes that were charged against him.
He said that the State would argue that, at 3:30 p.m. On May 11, 2018, Mr. Cash ran into a Garda checkpoint on Old Mallow Road in Cork, but upon seeing the checkpoint, he reversed and struck a parked car belonging to a civilian.
He said that the State would allege that Mr. Cash then rammed a Garda patrol car belonging to the Garda Armed Support Unit, causing damage worth around € 20,000 before taking off at high speed in the direction of Carrignavar.
He said the state would argue that while driving dangerously through Carrignavar at high speed and overtaking on the wrong side of the road, he hit a 16-year-old pedestrian in the arm and did not stop.
He said two Gardas identified Mr. Cash as the driver of the car and Garda obtained CCTV footage of Kilmeaden in Co Waterford that same day, where Mr. Cash was wearing the same sweater that was seen in the car.
Judge Boyle said he accepted that Mr. Cash had strong family ties to Portlaoise, where his wife and two children lived, but she said the charges against him were serious and there appeared to be strong evidence against him.
She said she accepted Garda’s assertion that Mr. Cash was a flight risk given the seriousness of the charges against him and rejected his bond, leaving him in custody to appear again in court on June 16.
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