Two grown men ‘let themselves down badly’ in scuffle

Former Irish rugby international Terry Kennedy told a judge yesterday that “two grown men had let themselves down very badly” in a sideline scuffle at a schoolboys soccer match.

Mr Kennedy was giving evidence in a case in which amateur referee and GP, Michael O’Tierney, was awarded damages for assault against Gary Talbot.

Mr Kennedy, who faced the might of the All-Blacks in 1978, told how he dragged one man off the other after both had made a swipe at each other and had fallen to the ground.