Man faces trial in Sydney over Irish backpacker’s death

A MAN accused of punching an Irish backpacker outside a takeaway shop in Sydney, Australia, has been ordered to face trial for manslaughter.

In Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court yesterday, magistrate Carolyn Barkell committed Tobias Liam Simmons to stand trial in the New South Wales District Court next month.

Simmons is accused of striking 23-year-old Gearoid Walsh at Coogee’s Yeeros cafe in Sydney at about 11pm on October 25, 2009.