Man punched Simon worker in the eye

A member of staff at Cork Simon Community was punched in the eye by a man who had been refused admission to the shelter.

Kiall Duggan, aged 26, shouted at the height of the incident: “I am going to box the head off you for letting drug users in and not me.”

Duggan had been seen shouting from the road outside Simon on Anderson’s Quay at a woman inside the premises before the assault occurred.