A man is to appear in court charged in connection with an incident in which a member of An Garda Síochána was injured after being struck by a motorcycle in Finglas, Dublin.
At around 5.45pm on Wednesday, while on a routine patrol, gardaí attached to the Finglas Drugs Unit observed two motorbikes – which were believed to have been stolen – at a petrol station on North Road.
When gardaí approached them, the motorcyclists drove off and in the course of doing so struck a member of the force.
The Garda, a man in his 30s, was taken to the city’s Mater University Hospital for treatment of a serious but non-life-threatening injury.
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A man aged in his 20s has since been arrested and was being detained at a Garda station in west Dublin.
He was charged overnight and is due to appear before Blanchardstown District Court on Thursday morning.
In a separate incident on May 11th, Garda Kevin Flatley (49) died after being struck by a motorcyclist while carrying out a checkpoint near Lanestown, north Co Dublin. The motorcyclist involved in this incident, a man aged in his 30s, was treated in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, for serious injuries.
