Nightclub patron punched bouncer

A patron at a Cork nightclub who punched one of the security guards in the face was ordered to do 100 hours of community service yesterday to avoid a three-month jail term.

Stephen Power, aged 26, with an address at Gurteen, Inniscarra, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to assaulting Tony Mullins at Reardan’s on September 10, 2016, and a number of related charges.

Judge Aingil Ní Chondúin had put the case back until yesterday for a probation report on the defendant.