Father to resume hunger strike over son

AN Assistant Garda Commissioner has been dispatched to Cork to try to prevent an anguished father from resuming a hunger strike outside the Dáil next Tuesday over the death of his son at a local nightclub.

Andrew Moynihan, whose son, Adrian, died more than two years ago after an altercation at Sidetrax Nightclub for which the DPP is not going to prosecute, is, however, not hopeful that his meeting today will achieve anything.

Last month he went on hunger strike outside the Dáil where the case was being debated - and the Minister for Justice Michael McDowell was infamously in the Dáil bar.