'Reclaim the Streets' man discusses video evidence

A man who claims a garda him assaulted at the 2002 ‘Reclaim the Streets’ march in Dublin has identified himself on video footage of the event being struck three times by a garda with a baton.

Mr Fergal Leddy (aged 35) was giving evidence in the trial, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, in which Garda Paul Tallon of Mountjoy Garda Station has pleaded not guilty to assault causing him harm on May 6, 2002 at Dame Street in the city centre.