Man attacked as soccer fans in pub disturbance

Shamrock Rovers fans looking for drink before a match in Cork City caused a disturbance in a pub and at the height of it, one of the visiting Dubliners kicked a local man in the groin.

Judge Olann Kelleher expressed concern that local soccer fans “cannot have a drink before a match in peace and fellas come down from Dublin...”

Eddie Burke, defending, interjected at that point in Cork District Court yesterday to say the man who admitted the assault felt ashamed of his actions.