Drunk girl took part in 'appalling' group attack

A teenage girl, who was drunk on a litre of vodka, repeatedly kicked a man in the stomach while he lay on the ground and was simultaneously attacked by four others, a court heard today.

The girl (aged 17) had pleaded not guilty to assaulting a 23-year-old American man, at Dublin’s Aston Quay, on March 13 last. She was found guilty at her hearing in the Dublin Children’s Court today where Judge Bryan Smyth described the gang attack as “quite appalling.”