A retired Garda who suffered excruciating pain after being repeatedly kicked in the testicles by a man he was trying to arrest has been awarded almost €80,000 compensation in the High Court.

A STUDY found that alcohol levels in 100 people hospitalised in a heavily intoxicated state, all of whom survived, were far greater than those found in an Englishman who died after a night of drinking in a Co Tipperary hotel.

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