One punch left man partially deaf and unable to taste

A single punch after a day spent celebrating the drawn Cork-Kerry Munster final in pubs left a man with permanent physical injuries — but the emotional trauma on the wider family was just as bad, the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee was told.

The victim, Adrian Scanlon, and his fiancé Aoife Bradley had been watching the final on July 5, 2007, and arranged to meet Ms Bradley’s brother Thomas in a pub in Tralee.

In Tralee, Mr Scanlon had “wandered off” and Aoife and Thomas Bradley went searching for him and found him in Milk Market Lane, adjacent to Rock St.