Stokes to be served with book of evidence next month

A PUB owner is to be served with a book of evidence in December on charges of assault, possession of stun guns and threatening another publican to stop trading.

John Stokes, aged 54, who owns the Players Lounge pub in Fairview, Dublin, and is father of Celtic striker Anthony Stokes, made his fourth appearance at Dublin District Court yesterday.

He and Alan Ryan, aged 30, of Grange Abbey Drive, Donaghmede, Dublin, Daryl Mulcahy, aged 19, of Matt Talbot Court, Dublin, and Derek Nolan, aged 29, from Seacliff Road, in Baldoyle, Dublin, had been charged in May under section 17 of the Public Order Act.