Off-duty garda who assaulted hotel porter while 'paralytic drunk' avoids conviction

Judge said he would instead impose the Probation Act and made a compensation order for €5,000

Caoileann Fitzmaurice, aged 31, stationed at Pearse Street Garda Station in Dublin, pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Lawal at the Queen’s Hotel, Abbey Street, Ennis, Co Clare on January 21, 2023. Picture: Press 22

An off-duty Garda got ‘paralytic drunk’ after drinking sambucas during a stag weekend before assaulting a hotel porter in Ennis, a court has heard.

At Ennis District Court, Judge Alec Gabbett said: