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SIX PEOPLE including an American tourist were beaten, kicked and punched in separate attacks by a gang of drunken men following a St Patrick’s Day parade, a court heard yesterday.

James Faul from St Louis, Missouri, told Clonmel Circuit Court how he was attacked from behind by a gang of men while visiting Tipperary town with his wife on March 17th this year.