“Public safety concern” was cited by the Gardaí at Friday’s vacation sittings of Monaghan District Court when objecting to bail being granted to a Co Louth man who was brought before the court in connection with an assault on a bus passenger in Monaghan Town earlier this month.
Twenty-two-year old Gary O’Donoghue, from Harpur House, William Street, Drogheda was also arrested during the sittings of the court after an incident in which he is alleged to have assaulted solicitor Lynda Smyth in the Monaghan Courthouse building while Friday’s vacation sittings were …