Calls to ‘give frontline gardaí stun guns’ following bottle attack on garda in Dublin

There have been fresh calls to arm frontline gardaí with electric stun guns after a man used a bottle to attack a garda.

The officer received injuries to his leg and had to be hospitalised, where he received a number of stitches to the wound.

The attack took place in Cabra, north Dublin, after gardaí responded to a call that a car was on fire at New Campbell’s Bridge at 5.30am.