Badminton player faces €30k bill for assault

International badminton player Nigel Boyne has been ordered to pay the manager of Baldoyle Badminton Centre €30,000 damages for assault and defamation.

Badminton player faces €30k bill for assault

Mr Boyne, of Elm Mount Lawn, Beaumont, Dublin, donned a Star Wars-like mask under a hooded jacket as he ran from the Four Courts complex following the decisionMr Justice Raymond Groarke.

The court heard that as Mr Boyne wrestled on the floor with another badminton player at a fundraiser in the Baldoyle Centre his hand came into contact with Jean Denihan, causing her to fall backwards in a whiplash-type fashion as she tried to separate them.

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