Stunned colleagues of the garda who took his life this week paid emotional tributes to a man they described as exceptional as his family prepare to bury him today.

The popular garda involved in a tragic shooting at the weekend has died at Kerry General Hospital.

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.

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.