OUTSTANDING cases involving alleged garda abuses during the May Day 2002 clashes are due to be completed by the end of the year, it was confirmed yesterday.

An expert witness told a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that Garda Paul Daly hit a protester with his baton on the junction of Parliament St and Dame St during the "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration on May Day 2002.

The trial of two gardaí accused of beating a protester at the May Day 2002 Reclaim the Streets demonstration continued in legal argument in the absence of the jury for most of the day in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court,