Man assaulted on own doorstep had to wait over an hour for garda help in Cork

A middleaged man from Cork has been left battered and bruised after drunken young people assaulted him on his own doorstep this weekend, repeatedly kicking him in the head and eventually leaving him in a pool of his own blood.

Adding insult to his injury, John Handelaar said he waited for more than an hour for gardaí to respond to the incident, by which time his assailants were long gone.

Mr Handlelaar, who has been living on Gilabbey Street for the last eight years, was at home with his wife, Sabrina Dent, when they were disturbed by a group of young adults congregating outside their house at around 3.30am on Saturday morning.