Temple Bar assault victim dies in hospital

A man who was brutally attacked in Dublin’s Temple Bar area on Thursday night has died.

The victim, understood to be from Dublin, had been seriously assaulted after being set upon at the Cow’s Lane area in Temple Bar at around 8.45pm on Thursday.

Yesterday morning, as the man lay in a critical condition in St James’s Hospital, gardaí investigating the incident appealed to passers-by in the busy Dublin tourist district who videoed the assault on their smartphones to come forward with the evidence.