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Major update as naked Dublin court-rap man’s ’emotional support’ cat makes dramatic return home after epic journey

Joseph Davis is up again in court later this month

• Published: 7:00, 12 Apr 2024

NAKED court-rap cat man Joseph Davis’ cunning kitty has returned home after an epic two-day, six kilometre journey across Dublin.

Intrepid Oliver — Ollie — somehow made it back to the family pad off the Navan Road after his owner was stopped for alleged traffic offences.

The “emotional support” moggy vanished during the arrest and Davis, 51, refused to wear clothes when he appeared in court at the weekend in protest.

Stunned judge Marie Quirke told cops to find out what had happened to Ollie — and today the Irish Sun can reveal all.

He managed to walk from the traffic stop in Dunsink Drive in Finglas to the Davis family home where Joseph’s dad Martin revealed a cat-astrophe had been averted.

Martin purred: “The cat has been found. The cat made his own way here (to the family home). He (Joseph) doesn’t have him back yet. My other son Gerrard has him, he brought him over to his place.

“And they were going to bring him out to him but he (Joseph) has no place at the moment. He is staying with a friend for a while.

“His brother is minding the cat. We had him for a while, I would have looked after him anyway.

“The cat being found is probably the only good thing (out of all of this). The cat is sound, he’s sound.

“We just call him Ollie, he is a beautiful cat, he wouldn’t even draw his claws at ya.”

Davis, of Ashington Mews, Dublin 7, has been charged failing to give gardai his details and not keeping the car stationary last Friday.

At Saturday’s Dublin District Court sitting, Judge Quirke was told Davis was refusing to wear clothes when brought to the courthouse.

Unemployed Davis told the judge how he had been travelling with Oliver when he was stopped.

He banged on the glass barrier in front of the dock and called out: “Where is my emotional support animal?

‘Lost without him’

He repeatedly begged for his beloved cat to be located, saying: “Please, I need to find my animal. I’m lost without him, and he is lost without me”.

Judge Quirke remanded him in custody with consent to €200 bail and directed medical attention before urging gardai to find out what happened to his cat, Oliver.

On Tuesday, Davis appeared at Cloverhill District Court via video link — this time fully clothed.

He told the court that he had been trying to obtain bail since his initial court appearance but had not been been unable to do so because his “trousers were stolen.”

Found its way home

“It took the cat two days to find its way home. We didn’t know where the cat was at that stage but he arrived on the window.

“Joey normally slept in the front room and we always left a window open for him. A small window.

“The cat would do his rounds, come back, climb up onto the roof and in the window. That was his way in and out.“When we came back to the house the other day, he was sitting at the window, the window was closed. But he was sitting on the ledge.“So the cat came back two days later. It took two days. We were out and just happened to look up at the window and the cat was sitting on the ledge. That’s the good news.”