Accused says ‘Irishmen’ started row

A BRITON charged in connection with the death of a Belfast teenager during a brawl on a holiday island yesterday accused a “group of Irishmen” of provoking the fight that led to the fatality.

Paddy Doran, 17, died after being struck in the neck with a broken bottle as two groups brawled in a nightclub in Faliraki on the Greek island of Rhodes, a resort gaining a notorious reputation for the wild and sometimes violent behaviour of visitors.

Ten people, including two described as being originally from the North but with addresses in England, are charged in connection with the melee in a nightclub.