Executive beat and strangled cyclist

A senior company executive, who beat and began strangling a cyclist for riding his bike on a Dublin city-centre footpath, has been spared a criminal record and a possible sentence.

David Corcoran, aged 51, with an address at Collinswood, Whitehall, in Dublin, had pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Philip Fitzgerald, who suffered dental injuries during the incident at Clanwilliam Terrace in D2 on July 1 last year.

The case was struck out after Corcoran complied with a judge’s order to pay €3,930 in compensation and to give €2,500 to charity.