Judge refuses teenager bail in connection with OAP assault

A judge has refused to grant bail to a teenage boy accused of assaulting a 67-year-old man who sustained serious facial injuries during an attack in Dublin last month.

The boy, aged 16, has been charged at the Dublin Children's Court with assault causing harm to the man, in Ballymun, on December 20 last. He also faces additional charges for possessing a hatchet as a weapon, breach of the peace and obstruction of a garda, on the previous date and theft of bottles of beer from a shop on December 9 last.