Drunken brawl was ‘bit of a storm in a teacup’

Five men involved in a storm in a teacup at the Fox and Hounds pub in Cork were told they were fortunate that the judge had adjourned penalty until yesterday rather than on the day the evidence was heard.

Judge Aingil Ní Chondúin said: “I had in mind finding them a lot more. I put it back so that I could calm down after all that rubbish I had to listen to.

“They had a choice of going this way or that way and they went for the fight… It was one big drunken brawl.”