Pair avoid jail for role in violent disorder

A brother and a friend of a man who died in a Christmastime pub fracas in Cork were yesterday given suspended jail sentences for engaging in violent disorder.

A judge described the pair as “probably the less nastier of the factions involved”.

Gerard Delaney died from injuries sustained after a melee in the Manhattan Bar on Lower Friar’s Walk, Ballyphehane, Cork City, on Dec 27, 2011.