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Fri 03 Mar 2007€250,000 for garda with stress disorderThe High Court has awarded €250,000 compensation to a Garda who was "immeasurably" traumatised as a result of finding the bodies of a young garda and soldier in Derrada Wood near Ballinamore in Co Leitrim in 1983 after a shoot-out with the kidnappers of supermarket boss Don Tidey.Making the award yesterday, Mr Justice Éamon de Valera said he accepted the Derrada Wood incident and an earlier shooting incident at the Border in 1979 had caused Garda Desmond Sheridan's post-traumatic stress disorder. Both incidents were "most frightening" and had quite understandably caused Garda Sheridan psychiatric problems, which continued to adversely affect him.