Carpenter has sentence suspended in cleaver-attack case

A 24-year-old carpenter has been given a suspended sentence for his part in an altercation during which he lost part of his ear after being hit in the neck with a meat cleaver by his co-accused.

Glen Byrne, of Ballyowen Court, Lucan, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to violent disorder at Main Street, Rathcoole on June 10, 2006.