A secondary school teacher claims she “screamed out in agony” after a male garda allegedly twisted her arm until it broke following her arrest after an altercation on a night out. Ms Callinan had sued the Garda Commissioner demanding damages for the alleged assault. He grabbed my left wrist and twisted it higher and higher while shouting ‘tell us, tell us, tell us’. “I could tell something had happened as I screamed out in agony and was in severe pain. She described as “a lie” the suggestion by arresting Garda Austin Cunningham that she had given her brother a kiss on the street.

Source: Irish Examiner February 03, 2026 19:49 UTC