Youth who took part in attack remanded on bail pending sentence

A youth who took part in an unprovoked attack where a man was “rugby tackled” to the ground and repeatedly kicked to his head, has been remanded on continuing bail pending sentence.

The teenager, a 17-year-old first-time offender, had pleaded guilty in July last year at the Children’s Court to assault causing harm to a 49-year-old man at the Cabra Road, in Dublin 7, on October 20, 2007.