Man attacked his garda brother

A man told his ‘hysterical’ 13-year-old nephew after he had pummelled the boy’s father he was sorry that he had to see it, “but the fat pig bastard had it coming to him”.

At Ennis District Court yesterday, 51-year-old Garda Jim McNamara told the court how he was covered in blood and lost three teeth as a result of a ‘frenzied attack’ by his 30-year-old brother, Andrew, at the family home at Ennistymon, Co Clare.

Judge Gráinne O’Neill jailed Andrew McNamara of Ardnaculla, Ennistymon, for six months for carrying out the assault causing harm on June 17, 2015.