Two-year suspended sentence for hitting man with barstool
A chronic alcoholic who hit a man he saw talking to his wife over the head with a barstool has been given a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Derek Grehan (aged 48), of Sundale Park, Tallaght, pleaded guilty to assaulting the man at McGowan's pub, Churchtown on November 5, 2006.