No jail for woman who stabbed rugby players with scissors

A 23 year-old woman who attacked three rugby players with a pair of scissors outside a Dublin night club, puncturing one man’s lung, has been ordered to pay a fine and perform community service rather than serve a three year jail term.

No jail for woman who stabbed rugby players with scissors

A 23 year-old woman who attacked three rugby players with a pair of scissors outside a Dublin night club, puncturing one man’s lung, has been ordered to pay a fine and perform community service rather than serve a three-year jail term.

Ciara Byrne, of Darley Terrace, Donore Avenue, Dublin 8, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Court to three counts of assault causing harm to three men outside Tramco Nightclub on Lower Rathmines Road on October 26, 2007.

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