Gardaí name victim of fatal street assault

Gardaí have named the 27-year-old man who died this morning five days after he was assaulted as he walked along Dublin’s O'Connell St.

Alan Barber, from Lucan, had been in a critical condition in intensive care at Beaumont Hospital since the attack, which occurred at 3am on Sunday, but he died last night at around 9pm.