22-year-old jailed for New Year’s Day assault

A man has been sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to two and a half years in prison, with 18 months suspended, for assaulting 20-year-old Dale Creighton, who died in hospital after he was attacked in Tallaght on New Year’s Day.

James O’Brien, aged 22, of The Mill, Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, pleaded guilty last June to assault causing harm to Mr Creighton on St Dominic’s Rd, Tallaght.

Seven other people in their 20s are charged in connection with the death.