Teen who assaulted schoolboy gets six months

A teenager who beat a schoolboy with a metal bar described as an "appalling instrument" has been sentenced to six months detention for possession of the weapon.

Gerard Quigley (aged 18) of Belclare Park, Ballymun, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of a spring-loaded bar, intending to injure another, at Ballymun Comprehensive School on September 21, 2004.