Man who stabbed ex-wife has half of sentence suspended on appeal

A Dublin man who repeatedly stabbed his ex-wife in the stomach with a bread knife has succeeded in having half of his six-year sentence suspended on appeal.

Clive Kearns (aged 60), of Achill Road, Ballybrack, had pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault causing serious harm to Ms Dorothy Gilsenan at her then home in Whitehcurch Avenue, Rathfarnham on January 17, 2008.