Four-year sentence for nose-biting man

A man who bit-off a piece of another man’s nose in a drink and drug-fuelled fight over a missing €50 has been jailed for four years by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Eric Jackson, aged 22, from Cross Avenue, Dun Laoghaire and his friend Stephen Griffin returned from an "early house" after spending the night drinking and taking cocaine to an apartment at Eden Park in Dun Laoghaire where Richie Halligan was asleep on the couch.