Man awarded €12k for assault on bus

A taxi driver has been awarded damages against Dublin Bus after he was assaulted on a bus in 2006.

Martin O’Neill, 45, of Kelly’s Bay Cove, Skerries, said three “Arab or Asian-type immigrants” tried to gouge out his eyes in an attack following a Bon Jovi concert at Croke Park in May 2006, a judge heard yesterday.

Barrister Frank Beatty told the Circuit Civil Court that Mr O’Neill and his then girlfriend, Emelia, now his wife, decided to catch the Nite-Link bus to Skerries after the concert.