What I said.
I expect heâll chance his scarf suing RTE nowâŠ
From 2022.
A Garda complaint guarantees lifetime anonymity.
A few years ago two barristers were caught having sex in a London train station. Cops, families involved - prosecution and embarrassment pending. The woman makes a complaint of sexual assault in a quite brilliant move and thereby no salacious stories with her name can be run.
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âShe was accused of indecently assaulting the boy on two occasions in his home, where she had been giving him grinds.â
well now we know what type of grinds she was giving him
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Looks like the evidence was exactly the same as the case above, yet one deemed guilty, and the other, a paid performer, deemed innocent
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Why is this guys name being withheld?
https://twitter.com/Luighseach/status/1717155097199755572?t=ncMTE2fJVm8iEIy8rEWiUg&s=19
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Would a regular citizen have his name published for alleged drug driving offence?
By the by, if the legal limit is 0, isnt 10 times 0âŠ
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The legal threshold is some 10 Nanograms per millilitre of blood, so 100 NG
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It didnât say heâs not an MEP
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Not very high profile afaik.
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Expensive partyâŠ
Schoolboy who head-butted another boy at Halloween party ordered to pay âŹ52k in damages
Teenage boys had never met prior to the assault in which accused punched the other boy in the eye and then head-butted him in the face, court told
Accused also order to pay legal costs of victim
FRI, 27 OCT, 2023 - 11:34
RAY MANAGH
A former schoolboy who punched and head-butted another student at a teenage Halloween Party in Killiney, Co Dublin, seven years ago, has been ordered to pay the victim more than âŹ52,000 damages and faces legal costs of âŹ40,000.
Zachary Kelly, now aged 23, of Mobhi Road, Glasnevin, Dublin, was also directed by Judge SinĂ©ad NĂ ChĂșlachĂĄin in the Circuit Civil Court to pay the legal costs of former Terenure College student SeĂĄn Holmes, who suffered a broken nose and concussion in what he described as an attack âout of nowhere.â
Judge NĂ ChĂșlachĂĄin heard Mr Kellyâs mother Aideen, in a bid to settle the âŹ60,000 damages claim against her son, sent an apology and a âŹ30 Marks & Spencer voucher to Holmesâ parents Alan and Monica, who returned it to her.
Barrister John Nolan told the court she âapologised for the actions of her sonâ and added her family did not condone physical violence in any shape or form.
Mr Nolan appeared for trainee accountant SeĂĄn Holmes, now also aged 23, of Willowdale, Orwell Park, Rathgar, Dublin 6, who told the court that on October 31, 2016, he attended a Halloween party on Church Road, Killiney, where the assault had taken place just before midnight.
Opening his case, Mr Nolan said his client had been punched in the eye by Mr Kelly and then struck on the face by what could only be described as a haymaker of a head butt that had caused the then teenage student very serious injuries requiring two separate surgeries to his nose.
âHe will also have to face further surgery,â Mr Nolan said.
SeĂĄn Holmes told Judge NĂ ChĂșlachĂĄin he had never met Kelly prior to the assault. He had been approached by him and punched in his right eye socket followed by a head-butt directly into his face. Blood had poured from his nose and after having been taken into the party house to be cleaned up, he had phoned his father.
Mr Holmes said he still suffered breathing difficulties and headaches and was very conscious of a lump that had been left on his nose. He said he had to use a nasal spray several times a week and his nose became stuffed up very easily now. He still suffered from spontaneous nose bleeds, sometimes at his work or while socialising.
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He told counsel for Mr Kelly he had never seen him prior to the assault and had not provoked him. The assault had come out of nowhere.
Alan Holmes said he and his wife, Monica, had collected their son and brought him home. The next day, his wife had taken him to a VHI Swift Aid Clinic where it was revealed his nose had been broken.
âHe was covered in blood when we saw him just prior to the guards arriving at the house,â Mr Holmes said.
Following brief evidence from each of a number of then schoolboys who had been at the party, the defendant Zac Kelly said the majority of the partygoers had been in the front garden of the house and he had punched Mr Holmes in the head when they accidentally brushed shoulders and Mr Holmes had started calling him names.
âI felt threatened and I reacted and hit him with my left hand. Friends broke it up and we went inside. I did not head-butt him,â Mr Kelly told the court.
He said he had been escorted off the premises by the house owner and the party had been abandoned after gardaĂ had been called.
Judge NĂ ChĂșlachĂĄin refused to allow a number of allegations to be levelled at Mr Holmes by Mr Kelly and other defence witnesses on the grounds they had not been put to Mr Holmes while he was under cross-examination and given an opportunity to rebut them.
The judge said Mr Kelly had admitted in evidence he had punched Mr Holmes in the face and she accepted the evidence of Mr Holmes that the head-butt had immediately followed the punch.
âMr Holmes sustained damage to his nose and around his eye and he required two surgeries so far and will require further surgery,â Judge NĂ ChĂșlachĂĄin said.
âHe has ongoing symptoms and is conscious of the bump left on his nose.â
The judge said she was taking into consideration that it was not a premeditated assault and that there had been criminal proceedings the result of which had been important to Mr Holmes including an order that Mr Kelly stay away from him.
She assessed general damages for personal injury at âŹ40,000 and added a further award of âŹ12,449 for special damages to date and into the future. She awarded Mr Holmes his legal costs.
Taken together with his own legal costs, it means Mr Kelly faces a total bill of over âŹ90,000 for an assault, the judge heard, he committed as a 16-year-old schoolboy.
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She should have asked in the Wedding thread what the going rate was.
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I always thought a hay maker implied a big swing, surprised to see a head butt could be described as a haymaker, let alone only described as one.
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Sounds like a major boo boo and the lawyerâs behalf here. No doubt they still get to charge full whack.
How many season tickets for Leinster Rugby will that buy the poor craytur?
i doubt theyll try charging as they would, and may still, face a case of professional negligence with the LSRA
Terenure v Na Fianna, this was only going one way.