Kilkenny Garda whose vision was damaged after being run down gets €280k

A Garda and former senior Kilkenny hurler who lost partial vision after he was run down by a getaway car in a robbery at a Glanbia plant was yesterday awarded almost €280,000 damages in the High Court.

Garda Owen Behan, aged 38, who is based at Abbeyleix Garda station, told the court that in June 2007, he had been manning a checkpoint outside the Glanbia plant at Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny, when the incident occurred.

Gda Behan told his counsel, John Peart, that he had been standing on the road when one car failed to stop and drove at him, knocking him into the air. He landed back onto the getaway car, hitting his head on the windscreen.