Cork man faces sentence for spear-tackling wife

A woman was caught by the neck, turned upside down and spear-tackled head first into the ground by her husband outside a nightclub. Yesterday, he was remanded in custody for sentencing.

Daniel Spencer, aged 30, formerly of Tír Cluain, Cloyne, Co Cork, and now living in Macroom, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to his wife Sarah Egan outside a nightclub at Hanover St, Cork, shortly before 2am on April 7.

Donal McCarthy, defending, said of the accused and the victim: “They are husband and wife, back together again, surprisingly enough.”