Alcohol a problem for teenager since he was aged 7, court told

A teenage boy, whose involvement with alcohol first caused concerns when he was aged seven, has been given a five-month sentence over an assault and a mugging in Dublin city-centre.

The 16-year-old, who about 40 criminal convictions, pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children's Court to breach of the peace, being drunk to an extent he was a danger to himself and others and assaulting a man at Upper O'Connell Street, on October 6 last.