‘Stoned’ teenager jailed for stabbing rugby fan

A teenager who was “stoned off his head” when he stabbed a rugby fan in an unprovoked attack in Limerick city has been jailed for two years.

Joseph O’Loughlin, of Glenbrook, Old Singland Road, Limerick, was just 16 when he stabbed the victim, in the side, with a butterfly knife on Catherine St.

Now aged 18, the teenager had no previous convictions at the time of the attack but, the court heard, had since amassed 35 convictions for a number of other offences including burglaries and thefts.