Alcohol-fuelled street crime doubled last year, Garda report shows

TWENTY-five people are assaulted every night in alcohol-related attacks, new garda figures show.

The report from the Department of Justice shows that 78,000 public order offences were recorded in the last year an average of 210 a day.

In the 12 months from February 23, 2002, to March 2, 2003, there were 9,270 assaults, 3,000 of which resulted in serious harm.