A father of three who took part in an assault in which a carpenter's hand was cut off with a samurai sword has succeeded in having a quarter of his eight-year sentence suspended on appeal.

A former fireman who cut a carpenter's left hand off with a samurai sword in a crowded Dublin pub has been sentenced to nine years in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Clonsilla man is to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in connection with an attack on a man whose hand was severed by a sword in a Finglas pub.