The Garda watchdog has criticised members of the force for being “slow” and “less than optimal” in co-operating with an investigation which ultimately led to two gardaí being convicted for assault and another for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

A Garda sergeant has lost her appeal against a conviction for assaulting a man during his arrest in Waterford.

A former garda appealing against his conviction for perverting the course of justice has had his bail application rejected at the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Three gardaí have been sentenced for their roles in an assault on a member of the public in Waterford last year.

A THIRD garda was yesterday found guilty of an offence arising out of an assault on a man who resisted arrest after being caught urinating on the street last year.

A Waterford Garda has today been found not guilty of assault causing harm, but guilty of assault on a civilian in the city last year.

Jury deliberations have resumed in the case of a female garda accused of assaulting a man during an arrest in Waterford city last year.

A jury will this morning resume its deliberations in the case of a female garda accused of assaulting a man during an arrest in Waterford city last year.

TWO gardaí will be sentenced in November after they were found guilty last night by a jury of offences arising out of an assault on a man on the street in January 2010.

A GARDA has been found guilty of assaulting a man who resisted arrest while another garda has been found guilty of intending to pervert the course of the justice by diverting a CCTV camera while the assault was taking place.

Two Gardaí have been convicted at Waterford Circuit Court in connection with an assault in the city last year.

The jury in the trial of four gardaí charged in connection with an assault in Waterford has begun its deliberations.

A SENIOR counsel representing a garda on trial for allegedly assaulting a man who resisted arrest has said if her client is convicted, the gardaí will “have to rethink how they deal with drunk, aggressive people” from now on.

GARDAÍ are not entitled to “hand out punishment to people there and then as they see fit”, the jury in an assault trial has been told.

ONE of the gardaí on trial for allegedly assaulting a man on the street in Waterford took to the witness box yesterday to deny he used “unnecessary force” when restraining the alleged victim.

THE trial of four gardaí accused of offences arising out of an alleged assault on a man last year had to be adjourned when a barrister involved in the case could not be present.

A DOCTOR who examined a man alleged to have been assaulted by gardaí found abrasions on his forehead and nasal area and a bruise on his left bicep, a court heard yesterday.