A court has heard how a man was on bail when he attacked two American tourists who stepped in to help the victim of a robbery in Temple Bar.
Anthony Clifford of Mourne Road, Drimnagh has been sentenced to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to the attack on April 29th 2012.
One of Clifford's two victims, a New York stock broker, was permanently scarred in the face during the attack.
The court heard how it's had a serious effect on his career as he now avoids face to face meetings with clients.
The other man suffered a broken arm when he tried to protect himself from a punch.
Judge Mary Ellen Ring was told how the two tourists came upon a man being attacked and robbed by a group of young men in the Temple Bar area.
The gang turned on them when they tried to intervene and chased them as far as the quays where a number of taxi drivers turned them away.
The Judge criticised this failure to help the victims, saying the attack “happened in one of the busiest places in the city and yet shamefully no-one came to the assistance of these men
The gang eventually caught up with the pair and beat them with glass bottles.
Clifford was on bail at the time and will serve his five year jail term once he has served his time for the previous crime.
