Suspended sentence for man who violently resisted arrest

A criminal who violently resisted arrest by gardaí after they caught him taking part in an alleged drug transaction has been given a suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

James Adair (aged 32) of Maple House, North Circular Road, Dublin 7, pulled Garda Dermot Moran to the ground and violently struggled with him as he tried to take him and another man out of a patrol car.