Court reduces sentences for St Patrick's Day attacks
Four men who assaulted six people attending a St Patrick’s Day parade in an incident of “unprovoked savagery” have succeeded in having their sentences reduced by a total of eight years on appeal.
The Court of Criminal appeal today found that there had been an error in principle in the imposition of sentences ranging from three to ten years on Ned (aged 23) and Dan (aged 19) Delaney and their co-accused John-Paul Delaney (aged 20) and Patrick O’Keeffe (aged 21) for charges relating to violent disorder and assault.
