Garda seeks €1m for injuries from crash

A FORMER garda, allegedly forced to retire by injury, is seeking in the region of €1 million special damages from the State.

Noel Kevane, of Roscarbery, Co Cork, claims he was forced to give up his career after being injured in May 1999 in a car chase during which a garda car was rammed.

Anne Rowland, for the Minister for Justice, told Ms Justice Mary Irvine, who deals with garda compensation claims in the High Court, that Mr Kevane would be seeking in the region of €1 million special damages for loss of career earnings.