Printer pays €20,000 compensation for stabbing neighbour

A former printer at The Irish Press who stabbed his next door neighbour "in 30 seconds of madness" after being caught letting the air out of her car’s tyre has been ordered to pay her €20,000 in compensation.

Michael O'Keefe (aged 60), of Castlepark, Tallaght pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Ms Ellen Farrelly causing her harm and to damaging the wheel of a motor vehicle on April 26, 2005 at Swans Nest Road, Kilbarrack.