Man defending student on bus stabbed by drunk

A student on the bus home to Kerry was caught by the throat by a drunken man who mocked him as a homosexual and when another passenger came to the student’s assistance this man was later struck on the hand with a knife.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a two-year jail term on the accused man, Timmy Foley, aged 43, with an address at Dan Corkery Place, Macroom, Co Cork, and suspended the last year of that sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

The judge banned him from travelling by public transport bus for six months after his release from prison.