Dublin executive punched and strangled man for cycling on footpath

A senior company executive shouldered a cyclist to the ground and began strangling and beating him for riding his bike on a Dublin city-centre footpath, a court has heard.

David Corcoran (aged 50), with an address at Collinswood, Whitehall, in Dublin, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Philip Fitzgerald who suffered dental injuries during the incident at Clanwilliam Terrace in Dublin 2 on July 1 last year.