Five years in jail for frenzied stabbing of GAA star

A Mayo man who stabbed Dublin GAA star Jonny Cooper hours after attacking a taxi driver has been given a seven-year sentence with the final two years suspended.

Mark Lavelle, 32, was on the drug crystal meth when he carried out the frenzied and unprovoked attack.

Lavelle, originally from Bollingbrook, Swinford, but with an address at Basin St, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing harm to the Dublin and Na Fianna footballer at around 5am on September 20, 2014 at Dorset St Upper in Dublin.