€35k for detective stabbed under eye

A detective garda, who was stabbed under his right eye after having been called to sort out trouble on Halloween night 2010, has been awarded over €35,000 damages in the High Court.

Det Garda Liam Dolan, aged 53, from Carragh, Co Kildare, told a Garda compensation hearing that he had just got out of his car in the Otomy Drive area of Clane, Co Kildare, when a group of youths ran at him, one teenager striking him in the face.

Mr Justice Bernard Barton heard that Det Garda Dolan had been “knifed on his cheekbone” and had fallen, bleeding heavily.