Assault garda gets suspended sentence

A garda with a “string of commendations”, who was convicted of assaulting two women in a row about a lift in a car, has been given a six-month suspended sentence.

Brian Hanrahan, aged 33, a father of two from Ballintotty, Nenagh, Co Tipperary, was convicted earlier this year of two offences of assault causing harm.

He had denied the charges of punching and kicking one woman and of hitting the other.