Sentence due for football star

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly will be sentenced next month for breaking a man’s eye socket during an unprovoked attack in a pub last August.

The 25-year-old, who is on bail, had pleaded guilty earlier to assault causing harm to Anthony Kelly at McGowan’s public house in Phibsboro, Dublin, on Aug 6 last.

Yesterday at Dublin District Court, Judge Ann Ryan deferred sentencing to allow the case to be listed before Judge Patrick Clyne, who had heard the prosecution’s evidence in the case last month.