Three-year sentence for man who stabbed victim with fork

A Dublin father of one has received a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to perform 240 hours community service for repeatedly stabbing a man in the face with a fork.

Patrick Scanlon (aged 39) with an address at Oakley Housing Trust, James Street pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm to Anthony Byrne (aged 62) at the victim's home in Kilmainham on January 19, 2008.