Garda Supt cleared of assault in bar row

A GARDA Superintendent has been cleared of assaulting a bar manager and racially abusing a bouncer at a popular bar, but found guilty of a lesser public order offence.

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Gavin O'Reilly, 41, from Cavan, denied assaulting the Penny Lane manager Emma Parks, under Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act and engaging in threatening, abusive, and insulting behaviour on the same occasion.

The three-day non-jury Dublin District Court trial stemmed from events at the city’s Strand Street Great, while he was off duty and socialising at gay bar, the Penny lane, on August 26, 2023.