An Aer Lingus cargo handler, who failed in a £30,000 damages action against police at Dublin Airport for alleged wrongful arrest and assault, was told by a judge yesterday he should have known better than attempt to enter a high security area without proper identification.
"We are living in times when security is still a feature in this country and people have to be wary in spite of hopeful progress on these fronts in recent months and years," Judge Bryan Mc Mahon said in the Circuit Civil Court.
Mr George Eyers, of Baldinstown, Garristown, Co Dublin, claimed he had been pulled from his truck and handcuffed by Airport police officer Donal Joyce. Mr Eyers said he did not have identification documentation with him nor a permit to enter the "air side" of the airport. He had left them in his locker-room.