Garda representative bodies have welcomed a judge’s decision to dismiss criminal charges against two members of the force – but criticised the prosecution in the first place.
The bodies spoke out after two officers, Garda Stephen Conran and Damien Kirwan, a sergeant who retired after he was charged, were acquitted by a judge at Dublin District Court on Thursday evening of falsely imprisoning a youth at a Dublin Garda station in 2021.
Sgt Kirwan (56) was also acquitted of assault causing harm to the same teenager during an incident at Sundrive Road Garda Station in south Dublin in April of that year.
