No jail for biting off student’s ear

A student who bit off a large chunk of another student’s ear in a Limerick takeaway and then spat it out at his victim, avoided jail yesterday.

David Fitzgerald, aged 25, of 56 Lynwood Park, Ballysimon, Limerick pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to assault causing serious harm to Christopher Hartigan, at Supermac’s in O’Connell Street on April 12, 2013.

The court heard Fitzgerald, who was attending college at the time, went to a students’ race day at Limerick racecourse that day and got heavily intoxicated.