Student assaults cameraman

A UCD science student is awaiting sentence after a court heard he broke a TV cameraman’s nose during an unprovoked attack in a popular Dublin pub.

Cillian Worrall, a 23-year-old final-year student in medicinal chemistry, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to TV3 cameraman Ronan Quinlan at McSorley’s Pub, in Ranelagh, Dublin 6, on August 8 last year.

Gda Sergeant Niall Gilhooley told Judge Michael Walsh that Mr Quinlan suffered a broken nose and bruising; the victim told gardaí it had been a “totally unprovoked” assault and neither men were known to each other.