Three brothers sentenced over claw-hammer attack

A MIDDLE-AGED man who stepped outside in the early hours of the morning to see who was causing mayhem outside his front door was slapped in the head with a claw-hammer.

The injured man, Barry Dennehy, 46, said from the witness box yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court: “I went from being a happy, outgoing man in my family and my work…”

At that stage in Mr Dennehy’s victim impact evidence he became distressed and handed his written statement to the sentencing judge instead.