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An Garda Síochána

Birr

Teenager due in court over assault on man in 50s

The man was left with serious head injuries, and was airlifted to Beaumont Hospital’s specialist unit for further treatment.

A 17-YEAR-OLD youth is due before court in Tullamore this morning in connection with an assault in Birr, Co Offaly on Monday.

A man in his 50s received serious head injuries in the attack, which happened on the town’s main street at around 3pm.

He was later airlifted to the specialist head trauma unit at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin for treatment.

The teenager was questioned at Birr Garda Station in connection with the case.

He’s due to appear before Tullamore District Court later today.

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:47 PM

Creed is excellent, I really wasnt expecting it to be so good.Stallone deserves the Best Supporting Actor award.

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Dec 29th 2015, 12:48 AM

Agreed, it’s a proper Rocky movie. Excellent.

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:58 PM

Rocky 2 plus rocky 5 equals rocky 7 Adrians revenge

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:45 PM

See. creed in the states nice homage to the rocky films well worth a watch

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:44 PM

Watched the new one t’other night, it’s not bad at all.

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:39 PM

Yo Adrian I did It !!!!

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Dec 28th 2015, 9:48 PM

Creed is brilliant, a must see.

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Dec 28th 2015, 9:36 PM

Such a f*cking shame that it’s only comming out here this month

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:41 PM

Rocky 1&2 were good lost its way after that

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:46 PM

Your first comment was good. Lost your way after that. ;-)

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:48 PM

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:58 PM

Rocky 3 was great with Clubber Laing. I have seen Creed it is not great, but what would you expect with Tony Bellew in it.

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:40 PM

Rocky 1&2 were good it lost its way after that

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:47 PM

It’s not rocky it’s called creed get your facts right please and I’ve already seen it well nothing much on telly over Christmas to watch was there ha

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Dec 29th 2015, 4:16 AM

Saw it a few weeks ago. Good movie.

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Dec 28th 2015, 9:17 PM

Lame!!!

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Dec 28th 2015, 8:54 PM

Check out the YouTube video, If Rocky 4 happened for real. Very well done

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Dec 28th 2015, 10:54 PM

Main character in creed is very difficult to like; love most of rocky movies (except 4)

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