Man facing possible €1m legal costs bill after jury reject damages case

A man is facing a total legal costs bill estimated at more than €1m after a High Court jury found he was not unlawfully assaulted outside a bar in Limerick city by two off-duty gardaí who had travelled from Dublin for a Christmas night out.

A man is facing a total legal costs bill estimated at more than €1m after a High Court jury found he was not unlawfully assaulted outside a bar in Limerick city by two off duty gardai who had travelled from Dublin for a Christmas night out.

Mr Justice Bernard Barton said the jury verdict in the case of Luke Morrison meant the jury accepted both gardai – David Naughton, with an address in Lucan, Co Dublin, and Wesley Kenny, from Sandyford, Co Dublin, - were threatened by Luke Morrison and/or his brother James Morrison on December 5, 2013 with serious harm and robbery and that the officers had acted lawfully as gardaí.