Fatal head injury after intervening in row

A man died from blunt force trauma to the head after reportedly intervening in a row during which a woman was being accosted.

Paddy Mullally, 57, a father of one from Wainsfort Park, Terenure, Dublin 6, sustained a fatal head injury after he reportedly saw a man harassing a woman and told him to leave her alone.

An inquest into his death opened at Dublin Coroner’s Court, where the man’s wife, Joan Shields was told he died due to subdural hemorrhage with brain trauma due to blunt force trauma to the head.