Three years jail for teen after schoolboy blinded in one eye

A teenager who smashed a glass in the face of a schoolboy leaving him permanently blind in his left eye has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Justin Cullinan (aged 19) claimed that he threw a pint glass at the then 16-year-old because he perceived himself to be under threat. He denied that he had actually punched the victim with it.