Trio face sentencing for attack on US tourists

Three men who took part in a vicious attack in Dublin city centre on two US tourists who had tried to stop a robbery will be sentenced on Monday.

The tourists tried several times to hail taxis to escape their attackers, who were throwing glass bottles, but the drivers “didn’t want to know about it”.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring, at the earlier sentencing of a co-accused, had criticised this failure to help the victims, saying the attack happened in “one of the busiest places in the city and yet, shamefully, no one came to the assistance of these men”.