Garda suing colleague for €60k after late-night assault in pub which left him with broken nose

Garda told the court his colleague had, completely unprovoked, punched him in the nose and broken it, leaving him covered in blood

Garda Ronan O'Shaughnessy and his partner Garda Aisling Walsh at Dublin's Four Courts. Pictures: Collins Courts

A Garda unit’s night out ended with one of them having his nose broken by a colleague during an after- hours drinking session in a pub just under three years ago, a judge heard on Tuesday.

The Circuit Civil Court was told a group of gardaí from Lucan Garda Station had arranged a get-together after work on March 28, 2022, and there had been a romantic break-up between two of them, Garda Ronan O’Shaughnessy and his girlfriend, Probation Garda Aisling Walsh, while the group was having drinks in Cassidy’s pub, on Camden Street, in Dublin.