Two charged after gardaí kicked and bitten during alleged assault

It is alleged that one garda was kicked up to three times in the face and that the other was bitten on one of his arms.

Two men have been charged after one garda was kicked repeatedly and another was bitten during an alleged assault in the line of duty.

The men, one aged in his 40s and one in his late teens, were arrested after the alleged incident which occurred as the gardaí responded to a public order incident on the Greenore Road in Carlingford, Co Louth, at around 1.30am on Tuesday.