After a judge heard that armed gardaí searched the incorrect residence and entered the children’s bedroom while they were sleeping, three children were given settlements totalling €52,000, reports RTE.
A judge heard that the armed gardaí, who had broken into and searched the incorrect residence, had gone into the bedroom of the eight to fourteen-year-old children who had been sleeping in their beds.
“Several members of the garda’s armed unit entered their bedroom and pointed their guns at a wardrobe before allowing the children downstairs where they were held with their parents for two hours while their home was searched,” Barrister Conor Kearney told Circuit Civil Court Judge Fiona O’Sullivan, reports RTE.
In his appearance with Chris Horrigan of Blake Horrigan Solicitors, Mr. Kearney informed Judge O’Sullivan that Ruby Maeve O’Reilly Gibbons, who is currently eleven years old, and her sisters Molly, ten, and Kayleigh, sixteen, had been terrified throughout the raid.
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He stated that all of the youngsters required counselling for shock and trauma soon after the September 2022 tragedy, and that their social and familial life had been upended.
According to counsel, the family, which included the parents of the children, had sued the Minister of Justice and the Garda Commissioner. Settlement offers totalling €17,500 had been made for each child, and he was recommending to the court that liability might become a problem because of an existing legal authority, reports RTE.
According to the court, the parents of Clifden Road, Ballyfermot in Dublin 10, had already reached settlements on their individual personal injury claims totalling €60,000 for amounts that were not revealed to the judge today.
The court was informed that the parents and their three children were detained downstairs while the armed gardaí stormed into the incorrect property and searched it for two hours.
Through their mother, Erica O’Reilly, the children presented their accusations.
According to Mr. Kearney, the medical reports that were presented to the court about the children’s care and the suffering they experienced were comparable, and the circumstances were the same in all three cases, reports RTE.
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