Woman doing handstands before stabbing at Cork party

A man was nearly killed when he was stabbed in a row that erupted out of a house party that had been so convivial moments earlier that a woman had been doing handstands.

Mark Sheehan, aged 33, of 64 Hazel Rd, Togher, Cork, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing serious harm to Brian Coade at Croaghtamore Square, Glasheen Rd, Cork, on September 14 last year.

Sheehan was given a five-year jail term, with the last two years suspended, by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.