A MAN has appeared in court charged with attempting to murder another man at a pub in Greenock last month.

Shaun Irvine, 32, is alleged to have attacked a man at the James Watt on Cathcart Street on September 17.

Police were called to the Wetherspoons-owned pub at around 6:30pm, with a 60-year-old being rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Irvine is accused of assaulting a man by pushing him to the ground before repeatedly striking him on the head and body by unknown means.

He appeared on petition at a private hearing at Greenock Sheriff Court on Friday afternoon, where he made no plea through defence solicitor Aidan Gallagher.

Irvine, of no fixed abode, was remanded in custody and committed for further examination.

He will return to court within the next eight days.