Man gets seven years for savage attack

A man who savagely beat two neighbours across the head with a table leg after his wife got into an argument late at night with one of the victims' daughters has been jailed for seven years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Christopher McDonagh, aged 28, from Kilmahuddrick Road, Clondalkin, pleaded guilty to assault causing serious harm to 42-year-old Mr Gerard Nolan and assault causing harm to Mr Robert Sidebottom, aged 32, on April 8, 2002. He has nine previous convictions.