A garda whose nose was broken by a colleague, who punched him in an after-hours booze-up in Ryan’s Bar in Dublin’s Lower Camden Street nearly three years ago, was almost equally to blame for what happened, a judge decided on Wednesday.
Garda Denis Lordan, who had sued his Lucan Garda Station colleague, Garda Ronan O’Shaughnessy, for €60,000 damages for assault, was awarded just over €13,000 against O’Shaughnessy which Judge Michael Walsh then cut to €8,000 on the basis Lordan had been 40 per cent to blame for the incident.
Judge Walsh said it appeared the two men had consumed “an extraordinary amount of alcohol” when they and other unit colleagues from Lucan Station…