Member of staff in Kilkenny pub suffers horrific injury after vicious late-night assault

A member of staff in a Kilkenny City bar is in hospital and will have to undergo surgery after suffering horrific injuries to his ear in an altercation on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

It’s understood the man - a member of the pub’s security personnel - was attempting to intervene with an unruly customer when he was viciously assaulted.

The assailant was restrained and arrested, before being brought to Kilkenny Garda Station.

The injured party was rushed to St Luke’s General Hospital, and later transferred to St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin where, following initial treatment, he will now have to undergo reconstructive surgery to try to save his ear.