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Garda suing colleague for €60k after punch broke his nose during late-night drinking session in Dublin bar, court hears

A GARDA unit’s night out ended with one of them having his nose broken by a colleague during an after-hours drinking session in Dublin just under three years ago, a judge heard.

The Circuit Civil Court was told that a group of gardai from Lucan Garda Station had arranged a get-together after work on March 28, 2022.

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Garda Ronan O'Shaughnessy and Garda Aisling Walsh leaving the Four Courts.
Garda Ronan O’Shaughnessy leaving the Four Courts with his girlfriend, Garda Aisling Walsh
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Garda Denis Lordan leaving the Four Courts.
Garda Denis Lordan is suing Garda O’Shaughnessy for €60,000 damages for assault
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The court heard there had been a romantic break-up between two of them, Garda Ronan O’Shaughnessy and his girlfriend, Probation Garda Aisling Walsh, while the group was having drinks in Cassidy’s pub, in Camden Street.

Judge Michael Walsh heard disputed claims alleging Garda Denis Lordan had pulled Garda Walsh’s ponytail while the group was having drinks around tables in Cassidy’s, and that O’Shaughnessy and Garda Walsh, who are now living together and expecting a baby, had a lover’s tiff and break-up on the night.

The party had moved on to Ryan’s Bar in Dublin’s Lower Camden Street where, Lordan told the court, O’Shaughnessy had – completely unprovoked – punched him in the nose and broken it, leaving him covered in blood.

Lordan is suing O’Shaughnessy for €60,000 damages for assault arising from the incident.

He denied a suggestion by O’Shaughnessy’s barrister, John Nolan, that he had attempted to blackmail O’Shaughnessy by having a solicitor send him a written undertaking to sign whereby the matter would go no further on payment of €20,000 damages.

O’Shaughnessy, in a defence to the €60,000 damages claim, alleged Lordan had approached him at the bar in Ryan’s and, while towering over and looking down at him, had made comments about the break-up with his girlfriend Walsh and tried to throttle him by grabbing and squeezing his throat.

He said he had just lashed out in self-defence and had struck Lordan on the nose.

O’Shaughnessy told the court that before the night had ended he and Walsh had made up their differences before the incident in Ryan’s had taken place.

Judge Walsh said he would deliver judgment in the case on Wednesday morning.


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