Two men sentenced after name-calling assault

A Kildare man and his friend who beat up a stranger and kicked him in the head, leaving him unconscious, after "slagging" off his name have been sentenced to 18 months and two years respectively.

Gavin Mahady (aged 22) of Glendara, Kill started jeering Mr Fergal O’Driscoll in Abrakebabra on Westmoreland Street in Dublin city centre after he learned the victim’s name.