‘Easygoing’ Pole left in fear after attack

A Polish man who was described as in tune with himself and his community in Cork and troubling nobody was violently attacked in the city and has been left with fear and confusion about why it happened.

A jail sentence was imposed yesterday on the man who attacked him, Dean O’Gorman, aged 21, of 14 Bonaventure Place, Greenmount, Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Garda Michelle O’Leary said O’Gorman pleaded guilty to the charge of assault causing harm to Ariel Puchalski, 32, on February 28, 2014, at St Finbarr’s Place, Cork.