Judge gives Traveller five years for walking stick assault

A Traveller who brutally assaulted a man with a brass topped walking stick and then stripped him in line with a tradition to "strip him of his dignity" has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Patrick James Lee’s victim later turned up at Dun Laoghaire garda station with no trousers or shoes to report the assault. He was also covered in glue because one of his attackers had thrown a glue gun at him.