A man danced around the motionless body of a 25-year-old he had just assaulted and raised his arms aloft in a “triumphant gesture,” a court heard yesterday.

A 24-year-old Tipperary man has been given a 21-year jail sentence for four unprovoked assaults in Thurles in February of last year.

A man believed to have carried out an attack outside a nightclub which led to the death of another man was arrested under the Public Order Act before emerging as the chief suspect for the assault.

A 25-year-old man has died after being assaulted in Co Tipperary at the weekend.

THE family of an “unassuming, well-liked” man who was critically injured in an unprovoked attack after a night out were last night keeping a vigil at his bedside while he remained on life-support.