A garda whose finger was broken by a person being deported quit the force 10 years early because of depression after the incident and sued the State for €310,893 loss of earnings. A garda whose finger was broken by a person being deported quit the force 10 years early because of depression after the incident and sued the State for €310,893 loss of earnings. The judge, who said the case involved very personal details about the garda's family, decided to anonymise his compensation application and referred to the garda only as Garda B throughout a reserved judgment. He said Garda B had received two injections and no other treatment for the fracture and made a full physical recovery. The main issue in the case remained the extent to which Garda B's psychiatric injuries could be attributed to the incident when his little finger had been fractured.

Source: Irish Independent November 06, 2019 02:37 UTC