Man imprisoned for assault challenges release ruling

A man jailed for attacking two men in a hotel, after a woman he had been seeing alleged she had been raped, has brought a High Court challenge over a failure to grant him ‘community release’ from prison.

The application has been brought by Sean O’Dea, aged 29, of Woodside, Clontarf, Dublin 3. He is currently in Mountjoy Prison.

In 2016, O’Dea pleaded guilty, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, to two counts of assault causing harm to two men at the Radisson Hotel, in Dublin city centre, on September 21, 2013.