{"id":354675,"date":"2026-03-19T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354675\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:23:09","slug":"leinster-rugby-player-alan-spicer-in-court-over-alleged-assault-on-woman-at-copper-face-jacks-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354675\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster rugby player Alan Spicer in court over alleged assault on woman at Copper Face Jacks \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/leinster-rugby\/\">Leinster<\/a> rugby player has appeared in court accused of assaulting a woman at a popular Dublin nightclub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Alan Spicer (21) of Swords Road, Malahide, Dublin, was charged with assault causing harm to the named woman at Copper Face Jacks, Jackson Court Hotel, Harcourt Street, on March 1st last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The secondrow, who has represented Ireland under-20s, UCD and Leinster, has yet to enter a plea to the charge, which is under section three of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He had been arrested in the early hours of that morning, charged and granted station bail to appear at Dublin District Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda Ronan Molloy, from Pearse Street station, said the accused was arrested at the nightclub at 4.05am and taken to the station, where he \u201cmade no reply\u201d when the charge was put to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It has yet to be confirmed whether the case will be heard at the District Court level or sent forward to the Circuit Court, which, on conviction, has wider sentencing powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Treasa Kelly noted that directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) have yet to be obtained, and the Garda sought an adjournment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge remanded Spicer on continuing bail to appear again on May 27th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Spicer   was not required to give evidence and no facts regarding the alleged incident were given during the brief hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Spicer thanked the judge as the case was adjourned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Defence solicitor Colleen Gildernew said it was not necessary to order that a summary of Garda evidence be handed over at this stage. She added that disclosure will be sought once the DPP\u2019s directions are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Leinster rugby player has appeared in court accused of assaulting a woman at a popular Dublin nightclub.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5721,61,60,11287,112],"class_list":["post-354675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-district-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}