Suspended sentences for south Dublin men in assault case

A disco kiss has cost seven "properly-brought-up" young south Dublin men more than €18,000 in compensation and earned them suspended prison sentences for their various roles in serious assaults and violent disorder.

The seven were sentenced by Judge Desmond Hogan who heard the case arose because a girl kissed a man some months previously leading to a drink fuelled mob-rule battle in which a bottle and a knife were used.