Dundalk man beaten to death on Christmas Eve

GARDAÍ in Dundalk are preparing a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions after a local man was seriously assaulted and died in the early hours of Christmas Eve morning.

Laurence Garvey, aged 59, of Oliver Plunkett Park, received serious head and facial injuries when he was assaulted by a man on Patrick Street close to the town centre around 12.30am.

Gardaí received a number of telephone calls saying a man was getting an awful beating. A man was seen to jump on his head a number of times, said one caller.