A Dublin man has admitted attacking his neighbour with a wooden brush and breaking his nose.
Michael Gaffney (31) struck the man several times in the face in an assault at an apartment building in the north of the city.
He was sent forward for sentence when he appeared in Dublin District Court.
Gaffney, with an address at Court View, Castle Avenue, Clontarf, is charged with assault causing harm and producing a wooden brush in the course of a dispute on May 5 last year.
A State solicitor said the DPP was consenting to the accused being sent forward to Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on a date next month.
A man who told gardaí he had been shot by men wearing balaclavas when he had in fact shot himself in the face has had his sentencing adjourned for updated reports.
When gardaí were called to the home of Darren Nolan (28), he told them he had been shot by three young men wearing balaclavas.
However, his mother told gardaí she believed he had shot himself.
Gardaí searched his room and discovered a handgun he had purchased online as well as over €16,000 of illegal drugs.
Nolan of Shangan Green, Ballymun, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to recklessly discharging a firearm and to possession of heroin and cocaine for sale or supply at his address on May 8, 2018.
Man held up court with fake gun and hoax pipe bomb
Updated / Friday, 22 Jan 2021
19:38
The court heard Dunican had made the fake bomb at home
A man held up a judge, a barrister and his estranged wife with a fake pistol and a hoax pipe bomb during a terrifying siege in a Dublin court, his sentence hearing has been told.
During a hearing in December 2018, Edmund Dunican, 47, told the court he had a problem with an opposing barrister, Lisa Daly, before he drew a realistic firearm from his briefcase and threatened her with it, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard today.
Liam Vickers (23) also threatened the victim s roommate when they attempted to intervene.
He instructed the victim to delete his phone number and text messages from her phone before he left her home.
Vickers of Swifts Grove, Clonshaugh, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm in an apartment in Dublin city centre in the early hours of September 30, 2017.
He has two previous convictions for driving while holding a mobile phone and failure to appear.
The court heard his father pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to murdering his mother in 2009.
Judge Elma Sheahan had previously adjourned sentencing, ordering that Vickers follow all directions of the probation service and directing that drug testing be carried out each month.