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The partner of a 73-year-old man whose head was stomped on four times during a sickening and unprovoked 14-minute beating, has told the Sunday World: No sentence could ever be long enough for what was done to him.
In an exclusive interview, given after Jonathan O Driscoll from Macroom, Co Cork was jailed for 13 years for the horror attack on Christy O Callaghan, the pensioner s partner Ann Holland told us: People who d do that, I d line them up and shoot them. There is no excuse for what he did to him.
A heartbroken Ann also told how champion greyhound trainer Christy spent a year in hospital before being moved to a nursing home, where he is now confined to a wheelchair as a direct result of the horrific and unprovoked beating dished out to him by O Driscoll (31).
); Sometimes I wish I was dead : Pensioner tells of his pain as man jailed for 15 years for unprovoked assault
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.