{"id":558987,"date":"2026-07-20T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/558987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:34:09","slug":"man-charged-with-assault-of-anthony-long-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/558987\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with assault of Anthony Long in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the assault of a man earlier this month who died in hospital two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Kenna, with an address at The Nurseries, Mulhuddart in Dublin, was charged with assaulting Anthony Long on Parslickstown Drive in Mulhuddart on 3 July last.<\/p>\n<p>He was remanded in custody to appear again in court on Wednesday when he is expected to apply for bail.<\/p>\n<p>Garda Se\u00e1n \u00d3 Fatharta gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution<\/p>\n<p>He told the court that he arrested Mr Kenna at 11.47pm last Friday night and when he was charged at 12.15am on Saturday he made no reply.<\/p>\n<p>His solicitor of choice Michael Hennessy told the judge that he was &#8220;attending but not appearing&#8221; out of respect for the tragic circumstances of the case.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was &#8220;unable to come on record&#8221; and represent Mr Kenna because he had &#8220;resigned from the legal aid panel&#8221; due to the &#8220;intransigence of the Department of Justice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo of Anthony Long who died after an assault in Mulhuddart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0024addc-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAnthony Long died from injuries sustained in an assault earlier this month<\/p>\n<p>Garda \u00d3 Fatharta said he would be objecting to bail and Mr Kenna told the court he wanted to represent himself.<\/p>\n<p>Judge \u00c1ine Clancy advised him of his options and told him he could make an inquiry about other solicitors or defer his application for &#8220;a couple of days&#8221; so he could &#8220;put his best foot forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kenna agreed he would defer his bail application, and the judge told him that this was &#8220;a wise course of action&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was not working and was remanded in custody to appear again at Cloverhill District Court on Wednesday when he is expected to apply for bail.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second person to be charged and brought before the courts in connection with the attack on Mr Long.<\/p>\n<p>Derek McNamee, 43, with an address at Thornleigh Road in Swords, Co Dublin was remanded in custody last week after being charged with the murder of Mr Long.<\/p>\n<p>He is due before Cloverhill District Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 29-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the assault of a man earlier this month who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-558987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558987","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=558987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}