Retrial ordered in assault case

The jury in the trial of a Dublin accountant accused of assaulting a former Ericsson engineer leaving him blind in one eye has been discharged having failed to reach a verdict.

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