A 16-year-old girl who was a passenger in a stolen car that twice rammed gardaí has been remanded on bail pending sentencing.
The girl, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, flung bottles at gardaí who had taken up pursuit, the Dublin Children's Court was told.
The girl pleaded guilty yesterday to travelling as a passenger in a stolen car on October 1st last year, at Pine Forest Road, Glencullen, in south Co Dublin.
"She was in the car which rammed a patrol car on two occasions. There were two juveniles in the back seat and they threw bottles at the gardaí as it followed them," said Det Garda Ultan Sherlock of Stepaside Garda station.
The stolen car later came to a halt when it crashed.
Judge John O'Neill was told that the west Dublin girl had no previous convictions and at the time her relationship with her mother had been bad. She had been thrown out of the family home but her mother has since allowed her to return.
She left school after achieving good results in the Junior Certificate.
"Since then she has not been doing anything and has been getting into trouble - she would be anxious to get her life back on the right path," her counsel said in pleas for leniency.
Her counsel also said she had not been involved in the theft of the car but had taken a lift from the driver.
Judge O'Neill noted the teenager's guilty plea and ordered a pre-sentence probation report to be furnished to the court.
"The probation services are there to help you but you have to want to help yourself," he said to the girl, who was accompanied to court by a relative.