Man punched in face over comment to woman in pub

A man was punched in the face in the toilet of a Cork City pub after allegedly making an insulting comment to another man’s wife.

The assault was described as a case of a man taking the law into his own hands.

Ian O’Sullivan, aged 34, of 3 Knockpogue Avenue, Fairhill, Cork pleaded guilty at Cork District Court yesterday to a charge of assault causing harm to George O’Neill, 45, from the Deerpark area of Cork.