12/04/2013

20-Year-Old Sentenced To 18 Months Over Unprovoked Pub Assault

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for a random attack at a Dublin pub in which he punched a woman in the face.

Darragh Costelloe, of Castlecurragh Park, Mulhuddart, punched Eimear Kennedy without warning or provocation when she came entered the ladies toilets of McTuarcaills Pub, Townsend Street, on St Patricks day 2012.

Ms Kennedy had gone into the toilet where she found Costelloe, whom she had never met, drunkenly stumbling around.

Costelloe pleaded guilty to assaulting Ms Kennedy. He had two previous convictions.

12 months of the sentence was suspended.

(H/CD)






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