A jury has found former All-Star and Clare All-Ireland winning hurler, Niall Gilligan not guilty of assaulting a then 12-year-old boy with a stick.
At Ennis Circuit Court on Wednesday, the jury delivered a majority not guilty verdict that Mr Gilligan of Rossroe, Kilmurry, Sixmilebridge, had assaulted causing harm to the boy at the Jamaica Inn Hostel, Sixmilebridge, on October 5, 2023.
Mr Gilligan sat impassive in the court as the court registrar read out the not guilty verdicts in the case concerning the assault causing harm charge and use of a stick.
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