Youth slashed for Facebook insults

A 17-year-old sustained slash wounds to his face and hands, requiring 100 stitches, after being viciously assaulted at his home by two men armed with a carpet knife and blades.

During the daytime assault sparked by Facebook taunts, Ennis brothers Brian Joyce, aged 23, formerly of St Enda’s Beechpark, and John Joyce, aged 21, also assaulted Danny Harty’s pregnant sister, Mary, at the Harty home, with one of the men repeatedly kneeing Ms Harty in the stomach.

Garda Robert Grant told Ennis Circuit Court that when he came across Mr Harty at the emergency department of Ennis General Hospital on October 14, 2015, his face and hands were completely covered in bandages.