GALWAY CASE OF THREATS TO GEORGE BUSH ADJOURNED UNTIL JULY

Date Published: 27-May-2008

The case involving a Salthill resident and former member of the American navy making a series of US phone call threats has been adjourned until July.38 year old Declan Noel O’Shea, a native of Kilkenny, with a rental address at Emerson Avenue, Salthill was given an honourable discharge from the American Navy in 1997.Galway Circuit Criminal Court heard today he made hundreds of threatening phone calls to an FBI agent over a nine-year period.The U.S. and Irish authorities stepped in to arrest him, after his threats escalated to include a desire to shoot American President, George W. Bush through the head and blow up the U.S. Embassy in Dublin.FBI special agent, Christopher Meyer, agreed with Judge Raymond Groarke that Mr O'Shea must have been “bonkers” at the time he made the threats .