18 months for man who bit stranger's ear

A man who spat, pushed and kicked at four gardai after they arrested him for a biting a stranger’s ear has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Carl Geoghegan, aged 21 of Pembroke Gardens, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, bit the man’s ear because he wrongly thought he was "at his girlfriend".