A man has been charged with the attempted murder of his mother at their family home earlier this summer.
Gearoid Coughlan previously appeared before Bandon District Court in connection with an alleged assault on his mum Mary in June.
At a hearing yesterday the assault charge against the 31-year-old was withdrawn.
The DPP directed the accused be charged with the attempted murder of Mary Coughlan and intentionally and recklessly causing serious harm to her.
Both alleged offences occurred on June 4.
Det Garda Peter Nolan gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution. He said Coughlan, of Ballycoughlan, Innishannon, Co Cork, made no reply when the charges were put to him under caution yesterday.
Insp David Callaghan said the accused was also facing two minor theft charges involving his allegedly stealing a few cans of alcohol and a bottle of gin in a supermarket in Dunmanway on May 28 and 29.
Coughlan has been remanded in custody to appear before the next sitting of Cork Circuit Criminal Court on September 2 in relation to those charges.
Judge James McNulty also further remanded him in custody in relation to the two more serious charges he faces.
He will appear at the next sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Dublin where a decision will be made on his fitness to plead.
Defence solicitor Plunkett Taaffe applied for free legal aid for his client and requested that both a Junior and Senior Counsel be made available at Central Criminal Court and Circuit Court level.
Judge McNulty granted his request for the Central Criminal Court but said that a junior counsel would suffice for the theft charges .
A previous sitting of the case heard the accused had defaulted on taking his medication for schizophrenia.
A report provided to the district court had outlined Coughlan’s longstanding history of paranoid schizophrenia and polysubstance drug abuse.
The court was also previously told that he is on a waiting list for a bed in the Central Mental Hospital.
