Anger management course for GAA star Connolly over attack

A Dublin football star has been ordered to complete an anger management course before he is sentenced for an unprovoked attack on a man in a pub.

Diarmuid Connolly, aged 25, of Collins Park, Beaumont, north Dublin, had pleaded guilty earlier to assault causing harm to Anthony Kelly, who suffered a fractured eye-socket, at McGowan’s public house in Phibsboro, in Dublin, in the early hours of Aug 6, 2012.

An unreserved apology, which was accepted by Mr Kelly, had been issued by Connolly’s lawyer last May during a hearing at Dublin District Court.