Garda denies swearing at colleagues

A garda suing for alleged assault and unlawful arrest when he was off duty and queried a late-night taxi fare denied in the High Court yesterday he had told a garda to fuck off.

Garda Oliver Cully also denied saying “you are fucking wankers” to gardaí and said he never said that to anybody in his life and it was invented.

Gda Cully — who claimed he was rugby-tackled to the ground by gardaí — told a jury on the third day of his action against the State that he said he would report the taximan he thought was trying to overcharge him to the Carriage Office and he had said he would also report the gardaí over the incident.