{"id":415605,"date":"2026-04-24T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:10:09","slug":"man-returned-to-pub-after-knocking-friend-unconscious-and-putting-him-in-the-recovery-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415605\/","title":{"rendered":"Man returned to pub after knocking friend unconscious and putting him in the recovery position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"24\/4\/2026&#13;Brian McKeown, 29yrs, of Mulhuddrick Avenue, Clondalkin, Dublin pictured arriving at the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ) on Parkgate Street in Dublin for a court appearance. pic: IrishPhotoDesk.ie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/354442b5-0da6-4f4d-95e5-513ae49a86d4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">24\/4\/2026&#13;Brian McKeown, 29yrs, of Mulhuddrick Avenue, Clondalkin, Dublin pictured arriving at the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ) on Parkgate Street in Dublin for a court appearance. pic: IrishPhotoDesk.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A man who assaulted his friend, causing him to fall unconscious to the ground, put him in the recovery position then went back into a Dublin pub, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brian McKeown (29) struck his friend four times, with the last blow hitting his head, outside the Swallows Pub in Clondalkin. The injured man fell to the ground unconscious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"24\/4\/2026&#13;Brian McKeown, 29yrs, of Mulhuddrick Avenue, Clondalkin, Dublin pictured arriving at the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ) on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-415605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415605","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=415605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}