‘All I have worked so hard for and the life I loved has been taken from me’

A three-year jail sentence was imposed on an Estonian man who caused life-changing injuries for a Castletownbere man in an unprovoked attack with a glass bottle.

The victim, Kieran Murphy, said he has not been able to work since this happened.

Jaanus Poldme, of no fixed address, was sentenced to four years with the last year suspended at Cork Circuit Criminal Court and told not to return to the town as a condition of the partial suspension for two years after his release.