A DUBLIN MAN overheard “roaring” racist abuse at a group of black teenagers outside one of Ireland’s busiest Garda stations has been jailed for 10 weeks.

Daniel O’Sullivan (26) with an address at Ballyogan Road in Carrickmines, appeared at a weekend sitting of Dublin District Court.

He was charged with engaging in threatening, abusive and insulting words or behaviour after using a series of racial slurs.

O’Sullivan, who is unemployed and gets a disability benefit due to suffering from anxiety, faced objections to bail but then entered a guilty plea to the Public Order Act offence.

The incident happened outside Store Street Garda station in central Dublin on Friday afternoon, just 13 minutes after a prior arrest.

Garda Mairead Murphy told Judge Grainne Malone that she was working in the station when, from outside, she heard O’Sullivan “roaring at young black teenagers”.

“He was using racist comments; he called them black bastards and told them to fuck off back to Africa”.

The court heard that “the three kids were doing nothing; they did not react”.

Garda Murphy, who was on plain clothes duty, went out and approached O’Sullivan, who continued to be aggressive even after she identified herself.

The officer arrested him at 4 pm and brought him back into the Garda station.

“He started acting aggressively and swinging out of me, and I had to get assistance from other members of An Garda Siochana inside the station,” she said.

The court also heard that he replied, “No comment when charged”, but then said, “They are only fucking….and he used the N-word”.

Gardai called a doctor for him at his request. He was denied station bail and held pending his court appearance.

He had already been released from the station at 3:45 p.m. on Friday after an earlier alleged knife possession offence, which the judge found relevant to the bail objection.

He had prior offences, including unlawfully possessing a weapon and a history of bench warrants for failing to appear in court.

Defence solicitor, Mervyn Harnett, was instructed that O’Sullivan had been set upon earlier that day.

The solicitor said his client’s attitude in the station was not commendable, and O’Sullivan thought that his girlfriend had a heart attack; he felt “animated” and “did not deal with it well”.

The solicitor said O’Sullivan suffered from anxiety, and this incident appeared to have been a symptom of that. He said his client did not work due to “his particular health challenges”.

Judge Malone noted that no further charges would be brought.

Garda Murphy told the court that she was concerned about his behaviour on the street and “whatever anxiety he had, these three kids had nothing to do with it, and even back at the Garda station in his reply after caution, he still referred back to them using racist words”.