'Inactive life' for former soldier after beating, court hears

A former English Army corporal has been consigned to a desk job and an inactive life with non-stop headaches after being savagely attacked in Dublin's Temple Bar area.

Conor Shaw (aged 33), whose hobbies included hang-gliding, sky diving, mountain climbing and absailing instruction, was kicked in the head until he was unconscious in the early hours of Easter Sunday morning, 2006, at the Central Bank Plaza after 'something funny' was said about his assailant's brother's hair.