Garda to go on trial for city centre street attack

A garda who has pleaded not guilty to attacking a man in Dublin City centre in 2012 will go on trial in January, a judge ordered yesterday.

Garda Donal O’Neill, who is based at Pearse St station, in Dublin, is accused of assaulting a named man on Pearse St on December 16, 2012. He is being prosecuted by the DPP on behalf of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

Yesterday at Dublin District Court Judge Eugene O’Kelly agreed a request from prosecution solicitor Ronan O’Brien’s for the two-day hearing to commence on January 27.