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<\/p>\nA court was told Supt Gavin O\u2019Reilly also said the garda would \u201close his job\u201d for arresting him\n<\/p>\n
A court was told Supt Gavin O\u2019Reilly also said the garda would \u201close his job\u201d for arresting him, and shouted about ringing the assistant commissioner.<\/p>\n
Evidence was continuing today in Mr O\u2019Reilly\u2019s trial for smacking a phone out of a bar manager\u2019s hand as she recorded him after he allegedly racially abused a bouncer.<\/p>\n
The confrontation happened after Mr O’Reilly and friends had been asked to leave a popular Dublin city centre gay bar where they had been on a night out. Denying the allegations, the accused maintains he never called the bouncer a \u201cblack b***ard\u201d and did not know it was a phone that was being \u201cshoved in his face\u201d when he \u201cswiped it away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Reilly is pleading not guilty at Dublin District Court to assaulting Emma Parks and engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour outside Pennylane pub, Strand Street Great on August 26, 2023.<\/p>\n
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Garda Supt Gavin O’Reilly<\/p>\n
Ms Parks said she asked the accused and his two friends to leave to get \u201ca bite to eat\u201d because they were noisy and she believed they had too much to drink. She said Mr O\u2019Reilly returned, got \u201cin her face\u201d with clenched fists and bared teeth, shouting that she was \u201cnever going to work again\u201d and he was \u201cgoing to get this place f**king shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said he told her his name, that he was a garda superintendent and that he knew the owner.<\/p>\n
A security man from neighbouring Panti bar, which is in the same ownership, came over.<\/p>\n
Today, the bouncer, Marcos Peter Inacio, from Brazil, told prosecutor John Griffin BL that Mr O\u2019Reilly was standing close to Ms Parks, shouting and being verbally aggressive.<\/p>\n
He said he grabbed the accused\u2019s shoulder and said “listen, get away from her.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is when he unfortunately became racist, saying \u2018get your hand off me, you black bastard\u2019”, he said.<\/p>\n
Ms Parks began recording with her phone and Mr O\u2019Reilly \u201cslapped\u201d it, Mr Inacio continued.<\/p>\n
He and another security guard put Mr O\u2019Reilly to the ground and the accused \u201cstarted saying he was a guard and to let him go.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Emma Parks. Photo: Tom Tuite<\/p>\n
When they let him up, “he threatened me, he said he would find me when I left,\u201d Mr Inacio said.<\/p>\n
In cross-examination, defence barrister Garnet Orange SC said there was nothing more than a \u201cheated conversation,\u201d when Mr Inacio intervened.<\/p>\n
Mr Inacio said he acted to protect Ms Parks.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmma Parks was in no danger whatsoever at that stage and you simply went over and manhandled my client out of the way,\u201d Mr Orange said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never used that sort of language towards you, he never mentioned anything about your colour at any stage,\u201d the barrister said.<\/p>\n
He put it to the witness that he had \u201ctowered over\u201d the accused and dragged him away from Ms Parks who began recording.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy client hadn\u2019t a clue what was going on, all he could see was an object being shoved in his face and he swiped it away and that is the extent of it,\u201d Mr Orange said.<\/p>\n
He put it to Mr Inacio Ms Parks had been \u201ctrying to provoke a reaction\u201d from the accused.<\/p>\n
Mr Inacio said this was \u201cone more reason\u201d he intervened.<\/p>\n
Ms Orange argued this was evidence that Ms Parks \u201cacted as an agent provocateur with a view to entrapping my client.\u201d He asked Judge John Hughes to dismiss the case but he refused.<\/p>\n
Garda Eoin Naughton said when he went to the scene the accused told him who he was. The garda did not know him and when asked for identification, Mr O\u2019Reilly \u201ckept shouting at us that he didn\u2019t need to produce his ID.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was roaring and shouting in a threatening manner towards us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Reilly was arrested and put in the back of a patrol car while Gda Naughton called his superiors. Mr O\u2019Reilly \u201cstated to me that I had no right to arrest him,\u201d he said. The accused got out of the parked car and shouted about ringing the assistant commissioner, Gda Naughton continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said I\u2019d lose my job over the arrest, he was going to sue me for \u20ac100,000 because of the arrest and tried to urinate on the street,\u201d Gda Naughton said.<\/p>\n
Mr O\u2019Reilly returned to the car and was later released pending further investigation.<\/p>\n
In cross-examination, Mr Orange said a trainee garda who had also been at the scene made a statement saying he recognised the accused after seeing him during a Pride parade. The trainee heard Mr O\u2019Reilly \u201cwhisper very quietly\u201d to Gda Naughton that he was a superintendent.<\/p>\n
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Garda Supt Gavin O’Reilly. Photo: Tom Tuite<\/p>\n
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Gda Naughton recalled that it was loud.<\/p>\n
Mr Orange said there was \u201cgood reason\u201d the accused was annoyed as he felt he had been \u201cassaulted, set up, pushed around the place and held against his will.\u201d He said he was telling Gda Naughton he could be \u201csued for false imprisonment because you had made a false arrest.\u201d He was also \u201cpleading\u201d to go somewhere he could go to the toilet.<\/p>\n
Gda Naughton denied that he \u201cutterly exaggerated\u201d his evidence. He clarified for Judge Hughes that his description of the accused\u2019s behaviour in their earlier encounter was more \u201cupset\u201d than \u201cthreatening\u201d. However, he was threatening when he said Gda Naughton would lose his job.<\/p>\n
Garda Graham Johnson said when the allegations were put to the accused, he replied that it was “all lies.”<\/p>\n
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