A MAN who subjected a pensioner to an horrific unprovoked 14-minute attack including stamping on his head while he was lying unconscious on the ground has been jailed for 13 years.
Jonathan O Driscoll (31) was sentenced as Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard that just weeks before he committed the savage assault he had been taken to hospital after suffering a psychotic incident - and was discharged just four days late despite pleading to be kept in treatment as he feared he might hurt himself or someone else.
Judge Sean O Donnabháin jailed O Driscoll for 15 years, suspending the final two years of the term, for assault causing serious harm to Christopher Christy O Callaghan (73) in Macroom, Co Cork on March 21 2019.
A 31-year-old man has been jailed for 15 years, with the last two years suspended, for a prolonged serious assault on a 73-year-old man in Co Cork last year.
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No explanation was given for the assault and the parties were not known to each other. By Olivia Kelleher Tuesday 9 Feb 2021, 2:57 PM Feb 9th 2021, 2:57 PM 23,814 Views 30 Comments
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A MAN HAS been jailed for 15 years with the last two years suspended for a vicious fourteen-minute unprovoked assault on a 73-year-old man who was so badly injured that he is unable to live independently.
Christy O’Callaghan from Macroom, Co Cork is well known in the world of greyhound racing as he trained a number of winners of the Irish Laurels in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
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