NOVEMBER TRIAL FOR GERARD BARRY ON ASSAULT CHARGES

Date Published: 09-Sep-2009

City man Gerard Barry will go on trial in November charged with assaulting two Gardai and two other people over two years ago. The 29 year-old appeared before Galway District Court today where a date was set for the trial. Wearing a dark green jacket, blue shirt and black jeans, Gerard Barry was brought in custody before Judge Mary Fahy at Galway District Court. Barry, of 65 St James Crescent, Mervue and with an address at Tur Uisce, Doughiska, is charged with being drunk in public and assaulting Garda Jason Kelly and Sergeant John McElroy in Eyre Square on March 31st 2007. He's also facing charges of breaching the peace and failing to leave the area on the same day. Gerard Barry will also stand trial on charges of assaulting a woman and a man on August 3rd 2007 and with contravening a Protection Order on August 16th 2007 by putting the woman in fear when he called to her house in the early hours of the morning. It's understood there is also another assault charge against the accused.Judge Fahy legally remanded the 29 year-old on continuing bail to November 18th for trial at Galway District Court.