TOP GARDA SIDESTEPS PUBLIC ORDER RECORD

A GARDA superintendent who was cleared of assaulting a bar manager and racially abusing a bouncer at a popular Dublin gay bar has avoided a recorded conviction for a lesser public order offence.

- BY TOM TUITE

Dublin-based Gavin O'Reilly, 41, from Cavan, had denied assaulting Penny-lane manager Emma Parks and engaging in threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour on the same occasion.

His three-day non-jury trial at Dublin District Court resulted from an incident at Strand Street Great while off duty and socialising at the bar on the night of August 26, 2023.