Woman avoids jail after attack on murderer’s sister

A Limerick woman, whose brother was convicted of a double murder, received a fractured skull and was stabbed in the face when she was set upon by a gang of other women on the doorsteps of the Limerick district courthouse.

The woman who led the attack, Winifred O’Donoghue, aged 29, of St Brendan’s Street, St Mary’s Park, was a friend of a woman who was one of the two people murdered, Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.

During the assault in Jun 2011, some months after the murders, the woman who was set upon received a fractured skull and a stab wound to the face.