Judge gives assailant 'one more chance'

A man who smashed a pint glass into a Bulgarian barman's head in a County Wicklow pub has been given one more chance by Judge Frank O'Donnell to avoid jail.

Neil Guerrine, who was 18 years old when he launched his savage attack on his victim who was trying to protect a customer being assaulted by a gang of drunken youths, failed to take up a place on the Tallaght Project arranged for him by the Probation Service.