Teen jailed for stick attack on security guard

A teenager has been given two years detention by Judge Katherine Delahunt after he hit a security guard over the head with a stick, leaving him with a perforated ear drum.

Ciaran O'Brien (aged 19), of Sheelin Avenue, Ballybrack, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting the victim at Ballybrack Shopping Centre on July 21, 2005. He had nine previous convictions.