A man who denies unlawfully killing another outside Sopranos, a Kilbarrack, Dublin, take-away, denied using a fist to hit the victim and said he knew himself enough to know he did not need to punch anyone.

A MIDDLE-AGED man subjected to a late night assault in Dublin was critically ill in hospital yesterday when he suffered a heart attack after his ordeal.

Gardaí in Raheny, Co Dublin are investigating a serious assault on a man at a shopping centre in Kilbarrack in the early hours of today.