Father used pint glass to hit man who approached daughter

A middle-aged father misinterpreted a man’s purpose in asking his daughter for a cigarette and reacted by striking him in the side of the face with a pint glass.

Insp Bill Duane said the young man had left his apartment in the city centre to get cigarettes. As he passed the Courthouse Bar on Cross St, Cork, he saw a young woman outside smoking so he asked her for a cigarette.

However, the woman’s father, William Ahern of 9 Ravensdale Close, Mahon, got the wrong idea.