Engineer blinded after alleged assault

An accountant has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for assaulting a former telecommunications company engineer who is now blind in one eye.

Brian Keane (aged 28) of Glenlyon Park, Knocklyon, has pleaded not guilty to assaulting Mr Jairo Andreas Diaz (aged 33) causing him harm by forcing him through a glass door at a Good Friday house party at Richelieu Park, Sandyford between April 14 and 15, 2006.