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A 29-year-old man who is confined to a wheelchair threatened to bomb Killarney Garda Station after assaulting four gardaí, including two female gardaí, Killarney District Court has been told.
Josef Urbanszky, of Hazelwood Drive, Killarney, was before the court on seven charges including common assaults of four gardaí, along with threatening and abusive behaviour on April 28.
He also pleaded guilty to making a threat to An Garda Síochána to damage property “to wit, threatening to bomb Killarney Garda station via social media".
Urbanszky had fallen out of his wheelchair outside a hotel bar at College Square in Killarney town centre at about 1am on April 28.
There was “effing and blinding” between himself and a friend and gardaí were called. The friend was arrested and taken to the Killarney Garda Station, Sergeant Stephen O’Brien told the court.
Urbanszky followed in his wheelchair and arrived into the public office of the Garda station, causing another disturbance.
“He refused to calm down and was insulting and abusive to gardaí,” Sgt O’Brien said.
He threw himself out of the wheelchair and resisted Garda attempts to put him back into his chair. He then pulled down his pants and exposed himself to gardaí and punched a number in the stomach, the sergeant said.
Gardaí called his parents, who tried to calm him down, and he again punched gardaí.
After leaving the station on New Road, he posted a video on social media saying he would get terrorists he knew to bomb the Garda station.
Urbanszky has five previous convictions, the court was told.
Padraig O'Connell, solicitor for Urbanszky, said social media was "a phenomenon of the era in which we live". His client had consumed alcohol and had made full admissions. All his previous convictions were minor drugs matters, Mr O'Connell said.
“He is a quadriplegic. He suffered injuries confining him to a wheelchair and he goes back to his own land for operations,” Mr O’Connell said. This included spinal surgery.
He was extremely contrite and sorry.
Judge David Waters said threatening to get people to bomb Killarney Garda Station and what this fuelled had consequences, and he was considering a custodial sentence.
The judge said he wanted more information and he adjourned the matter for probation reports to February 18.