Plans have been drawn up to make part of Cork City safer by night in an effort to prevent a repeat of a horror attack which led to a Spaniard being hospitalised.

A Spaniard who had 21 staples inserted in a head wound after a vicious and unprovoked attack by a gang of youths in Cork has said he has no intention of leaving this country.

The Spanish man brutally beaten with a golf club in Cork City was reunited with his young son yesterday after being released from hospital.

Investigations are ongoing after a Spanish man was attacked with a golf club in Cork city when he refused to hand over cigarettes or his mobile phone to a gang of youths.