Retired teacher hit neighbour in the face with metal torch during row over noise and barking dogs

Colm McElroy (70) shouted ‘obscene words’ at his neighbour

Andrew Phelan

A retired assistant school principal struck his neighbour in the face with a torch when “tempers boiled over” amid a dispute over noise and barking dogs.

Colm McElroy (70) attacked the victim on the man’s ­doorstep ­after being confronted for ­“making a racket” at bins outside their homes late at night.