Youth charged with assault after Halloween death

A Dublin youth was today remanded in custody after he was charged with assault causing serious harm in connection with the death of a man in Blanchardstown on Halloween night.

The 17-year-old youth, an apprentice electrician, was charged at the Dublin Children’s Court with assault causing serious harm to Mr Michael Murphy, a 31-year-old father of two from the Fortlawn Avenue area, in west Dublin, on October 31, at Blanchardstown shopping centre.