Cork man accused of hitting person across the head with iron bar in city centre attack

Court told two parties were known to each other and there was a dispute between them over narcotics

The man faces charges of having a metal bar and assault causing harm to another man at Grand Parade, Cork, on Tuesday, October 1.

A man accused of striking another man across the head with an iron bar on one of the main streets of Cork city in the middle of the afternoon was remanded in custody for four weeks on Wednesday.

Jamie Kavanagh, aged 30, of no fixed address and originally from Ballincollig, County Cork, faces charges of having a metal bar and assault causing harm to another man at Grand Parade, Cork, on Tuesday, October 1.