A garda has been given a one-month suspended sentence for assaulting a school teacher in the 2002 May Day "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration, in Dublin city centre.

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.

Two witnesses have told a jury that they saw gardaí beat a school teacher friend with batons as he lay on the ground during the May Day 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration.

A multimedia student who made a documentary of the Mayday 2002 "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration has told a jury he thought protesters believed they were being playful when they surrounded and rocked a garda car.

A man was punched in the face by a garda and then hit with a baton by another at the Reclaim The Street protest in Dublin two years ago, a court heard today.