Garda awarded €105k damages over gang assault

Three gardaí were receiving such a vicious beating from associates of a Dublin criminal gang that a detective was forced to extricate them at gunpoint and arrest their assailants, the High Court has heard.

The attack was highlighted at a Garda compensation hearing in which Garda Amanda Lynch was awarded nearly €105,000 damages for the injuries she received in the attack.

Mr Justice Bernard Barton heard two of her attackers were subsequently jailed and a member of the gang had since been murdered.