A garda who was viciously attacked by a man in a drunken rage feared he and two young children would die if he did not manage to eventually arrest the suspect following a 25-minute struggle.
Officer Ray Wims was repeatedly punched, elbowed, bit and spat on by 30-year-old Ciaran Flood during an incident he responded to just over two years ago in Co Sligo.
Flood kicked in a garden gate and broke into a house in Enniscrone after drinking cider.
