WATCH: Appeal on CrimeCall over shocking unprovoked assault in pub in the Midlands

The assault took place the smoking area of a pub last October

Gardaí are appealing for information in relation to an assault at a pub in the Midlands last October. A video clip of the assault featured on the latest edition of CrimeCall on RTE 1. 

In the clip, a man can be seen having a brief interaction with another man in a beer garden Kavanaghs in Portlaoise before he punches the victim a number of times in the head in an apparently unprovoked attack. 

The victim was left concussed with a number of lacerations to his head. 

Gardai are appealing for anyone who might recognise the assailant to contact them.

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