Women in vicious brawl outside school

Children arriving for school saw two women rolling around the ground in a vicious brawl, where one woman had her clothes ripped off and a man who tried to break up the fight ended up with a fractured skull.

The brawl which took place outside a rural Co Limerick school, entailed “a degree of savagery”, a court heard.

The two were rolling on the ground in view of children and their parents going to school and a nearby creche. The partner of one of the women, who acted as referee for the fight, hit another man with a hurley, fracturing his skull, after he tried to intervene.