Irish and international political rivals must work more closely with each other to stave off the rise of the far right in Europe and the politics of fear in other parts of the world, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan will tell party colleagues today.

A middleaged man from Cork has been left battered and bruised after drunken young people assaulted him on his own doorstep this weekend, repeatedly kicking him in the head and eventually leaving him in a pool of his own blood.